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🎨 The Lone Wolf, Alfred Wierusz-Kowalski, C19th.
🎨 "When she got to the wood, she met a Wolf", Arthur Rackham, 1909.

Peter and the Wolf 🎼: https://t.co/E979mk8My7

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2021-08-13

Ilustraciones de "The sleeping beauty" (1920) realizadas por Arthur Rackham (1867-1939)

📕 Puedes verlo completo en pdf aquí:
https://t.co/l8OPrx3wqK

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2021-08-04

Fairy godmothers, like their ancient forebears, the Fates, helped via their magic in fairy tales. In Cinderella, Perrault may have also been influenced by occult magic in courtly life a century prior to his era. 💫#FairytaleTuesday
🎨By Dulac, Crane, Rackham

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2021-08-04

Given Bakshi’s stated admiration for Rackham and the similarities here, I think we can trace a chain of visual influence from Rackham, to Bakshi, to Howe, and eventually to Jackson. 10/12

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2021-08-04

Rackham used this motif of fairy creatures hiding/residing in tree roots (not in Barrie’s text!), often with humans towering above them, multiple times in the book, as per below (I’ve selected 4 examples but there are more!) 8/12

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2021-08-04

The Lady of the Lake is often depicted as evil in medieval literature but in 'Le Morte d'Arthur' she has a very good reason to entrap Merlin under a rock. He has fallen in love with her and will not leave her alone.

🎨Rackham & Speed Lancelot

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2021-08-03

I have got to stop drawing, this is completely taking over my life. I can’t help myself, I just keep thinking of Need sleep!

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2021-08-01

'All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.'
- J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

Thank you for all your magical fantasy tweets! Have a wonderful bookish week and will be back next Saturday!

🎨Arthur Rackham

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2021-07-18

Friedrich de La Motte-Fouqué's "Undine" painted by Arthur Rackham (LDN, 1909)

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2021-07-17

(From The Tempest) by Arthur Rackham

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2021-07-11

'There was an old Woman lived under a Hill...'
Mother Goose: The Old Nursery Rhymes, by Arthur Rackham


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2021-07-11

Wet weather? Time to play some cards. Today's features 'The Queen of Hearts' & 'The Queen of Spades' (1898, priv.coll.) by John Byam Liston Shaw plus John Tenniel (1865, here a later tinted version) & Arthur Rackham's (1907) illustrations for Alice in Wonderland.

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2021-07-08

Iris is the Greek goddess of the rainbow. The Greeks saw the rainbow as linking heaven & earth & Iris as linking gods & mortals. She travelled on the rainbow to all parts of the cosmos, bearing messages from the Olympians to gods & men. Img: Arthur Rackham

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2021-07-08

NEVER EAT FAIRY FOOD It is transformed by their use of GLAMOUR & made up of weeds or rotten fruit. Fairies themselves prefer stalks of heather & the milk of red deer. 🎨Mary Evans, A human girl feeds on night mist scented with flowers; Fitzgerald; Rackham

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2021-07-05