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Illustrations featured are from Walter Crane and Arthur Rackham, presented below for easier viewing.
🎨 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
#InternationalWolfDay
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
In Greek mythology, Iris is a sky goddess and the personification of the rainbow. She is also a messenger of the gods, travelling from one end of earth to the other at the speed of wind, connecting the gods to humanity.
#FolkloreThursday #goddess
🎨'Iris' - Arthur Rackham, 1921.
THE LOUSE AND THE FLEA: A Grimm tale ('Household Tales' [1812]), a flea mourns the loss of his spouse, the louse. His grief causes inanimate objects to cry as well, until a spring overflows killing him. (Illus: Arthur Rackham, 1909) #InsectWeird #GothicBugs #FairyTaleTuesday
...And a follow-up fairy tale recommendation for those who may have missed it until now: "Seven Miles of Steel Thistles: Reflections on Fairy Tales" by @KathLangrish. It's superb.
(Art by Edmund Dulac, Arthur Rackham, Kay Nielsen)
Also I figured I’d do this because #WarForRayuba is getting attention
Hi I’m Spaghetti, I’m a 16 year old aspiring concept artist. My character in the OCT is Cecil Rackham, a dragon with a tank gun. This contest has taught me a lot about comics and time management.
For #Europe 🌍 Darkwood
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From: Flammende Welt https://t.co/VXKKhtIKcw
Art: The Rhinegold & The Valkyrie, Arthur Rackham, 1910
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#Darkwood #Folk #Neofolk #HenrykVogel #Industrial #Music #ArthurRackham #RingDesNibelungen #Nibelungen
There had been helper Fates in old lore, but it’s Perrault who gave us the first “fairy godmother” in his 17th-cen Cinderella. Perrault’s sense of French beauty, magic, & sparkle, also gave us the glass slipper. A magical man. 💫
#FairytaleTuesday
🎨Rackham, Doré, Sterrett
Charles Dodgson —a maths prof who had a bad stutter—loved logic, wordplay, & syllogisms. In 1865, he put some of his favourite logic riddles into the mouth of the Caterpillar in that famous book he wrote, as Lewis Carroll. 📚💫#FolkloreThursday
🎨Tenniel, Rackham, Carroll, Disney
Bonny and Rackham, step by step.
#art #artprocess #blacksails #annebonny #jackrackham #fanart #drawing #wip
An undine is a water nymph who gains a soul when she marries a human, but will die if he is unfaithful to her. A version of this myth was a popular C19th novella, wherein Undine returns to the water & her kiss kills her unfaithful husband. #FairyTaleTuesday Img: Rackham, 1909
Dick Whittington and his fateful feline is our next #fortnightlyfairytale arriving on Sunday.
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Illustrations by Arthur Rackham, John D. Batten, and Margaret Tarrant.
NYMPHOLEPSY: A word for fairy abduction taken from Classical culture. (Image: Arthur Rackham, 1933, for Christina Rossetti's 'Goblin Market')
#OGOMCon2021 #GothicFairies
The Goblin Market, a poem by Christina Rossetti, 1862. Two sisters: one is tempted by the fruit at the goblin market & almost wastes away. The other saves her sibling in body & soul by resisting the goblins with their fruit, at all costs. #FolkloreThursday Img: A. Rackham, 1933
Arthur Rackham, « Les Voyages de Gulliver », Swift, 1909 pour les couleurs
“Be thou here again
Ere the leviathan can swim a league.”
Oberon, Act 2, Sc 1, AMND
Img: Arthur Rackham, 1908, detail.
A leviathan is a sea monster, originally referred to in the Hebrew bible. In Rackham’s time it was thought of as a dragon/crocodile hybrid. #FolkloreThursday
Arthur pulling the sword from the stone & Lancelot slaying a fire-breathing dragon. From the Romance of King Arthur, illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1917 #FairyTaleTuesday
"There came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton... It was the beating of the old man's heart." Illustration for Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Arthur Rackham, 1935.
@marlowelune Von Bayros, Arthur Rackham, Alphonse Mucha, Aubrey Beardsley.