Devils in disguise play a central role in the weird, quirky XIX Century "Ingoldsby Legends". One of the most famous scenes features a grand 'pas de deux' between the Dame of the House and 'that Nick'.

«See! He grasps it with horrid black claws».


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Arthur Rackham’s “half reassuring, half frightening” illustrations of classic tales from over a century ago continue to inform our imaginations ~ Snow White / Maid Maleen / Alice

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“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”

Peter Pan's father J. M. Barrie died 1937

🎨 Arthur Rackham (1906)

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In Cumbrian dialect, 'wiggen-tree' is the rowan tree. Plant a rowan tree in your garden to ward off evil influence, and provide a home for benevolent faeries.


art: Arthur Rackham

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Spotlight on illustrated books: Arthur Rackham's illustrations for J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (1907) has just joined our shelves! Such intricate detail on each plate. We love it.

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✨Goodnight Twitter folk! May your dreams be magical.✨
🎨 Undine, Arthur Rackham 1909

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Una última curiosidad. El libro que lee Mortimer cuando está preso del IRA es novela infantil de para quien realizara ilustraciones entre otros muchos

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Arthur Rackham - A Sort of Homecoming (Szingy Gallery)

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"I would gladly follow even a will-o'-the-wisp through bogs" (Thoreau)

Happy Birthday,

🎨 Arthur Rackham (1908) https://t.co/sodigLboVa

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watch enough black sails and then you end up drawing Stede 2.0 like Jack Rackham, which is a FINE LOOK

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I met a young girl, she gave me a rainbow ...
Happy Birthday
Born 24th May 1941
thank you for the music 🎶

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If you are not already following Arthur Rackham , I highly recommend that you do

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'She put her arms round the marble figure which was so like the Prince'
Illustration from the Little Mermaid by Arthur Rackham, 1919

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Oh no, here comes Monday again! Have a good new week 🙋‍♀️💜🕊

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I recently started watching and after finishing season one I just had to draw this duo 🏴‍☠️

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“I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
🎨Arthur Rackham & Harry Clarke

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Uomo libero, tu amerai sempre il mare[...
Siete entrambi tenebrosi e discreti:
Uomo, nulla ha mai sondato il fondo dei tuoi abissi,
O mare, nulla conosce le tue intime ricchezze
Tanto siete gelosi di conservare i vostri segreti!

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