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"They all crowded round it panting and asking, "But who has won?""
Depiction by Arthur Rackham, 1907 art #Aliceinwonderland
The Mock Turtle drew a long breath and said: "That's very curious"
The Mock Turtle, by Arthur Rackham, 1907 #art #Aliceinwonderland
From “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1908 edition. Via @GallicaBnF. https://t.co/T8dqYaVo9z
“Undine”, or Ondine, is a fairy-tale novella, written by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué in 1909, about a water spirit who marries a knight named Huldebrand in order to gain a soul.
(illustration by Arthur Rackham, 1909)
#FairyTaleTuesday #fairytales
Illustrations for Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, English logician, photographer, clergyman and author #bornthisday in 1832
Golden age illustrations by John Tenniel, Arthur Rackham, Mabel Lucie Attwell and A.E. Jackson
"The Tortoise and the Hare", from an edition of Caleb's Fables illustrated by Arthur Rackham, 1912 #art
The fable itself is a variant of a common folktale theme in which ingenuity and trickery (rather than doggedness) are employed to overcome a stronger opponent.
Eye candy book illustrations featuring Sleeping Beauty:
Edward Frederick Brewtnall, 1880
Edmund Dulac, 1909
Arthur Rackham, 1920
Kinuko Y. Craft, 1984
#FairyTaleTuesday #SleepingBeauty #fairytale #fairytales
The language of the Universe is the feeling of being in love, of seeing the stars in a dark night, or of smelling fresh roses, and much more.
~ Gabriela Herstik, from Craft: How to Be a Modern Witch
~ Beloved Ones by Arthur Rackham, 1911~
CANNIBALISM & FAMINE The witch in Hansel & Gretel feeds the children only to fatten them up for her next meal, whilst they nibble away at her gingerbread house, symbolically eating her out of house and home #FairyTaleTuesday
My treasured Grimm ills Rackham, 1909
Birthday in the park: Arthur Rackham, 1867-1939, book illustrator........https://t.co/m053blh0QM
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Illustrations for John Milton's Comus by Arthur Rackham, 1922
Birthday in the park: Arthur Rackham, 1867-1939, illustrator........https://t.co/XSWIzPVOTL
We're half way through #ReadANewBookMonth and we've got a gorgeous new edition to keep you going. Featuring the beautiful silhouette illustrations by Arthur Rackham, available now! https://t.co/hWeNBUXpB4
For #InternationalDogDay, art by Vladislav Erko, Arthur Rackham, Lisbeth Zwerger, and David Wyatt.
Arthur Rackham, Venus and the Cat, an illustration from Aesop’s Fables, pencil, pen and black ink and watercolour, 1912
#FairyTaleTuesday The Romance of King Arthur~Arthur Rackham, illu.1917🌹
Arthur Rackham, “There needed but little change, for they were already a scaly set of rascals,” watercolor, pen and ink drawing, 1922
From Hawthorne’s fable, “The Miraculous Pitcher,” an adaption of Ovid’s story of Baucis and Philemon.
Arthur Rackham, ''Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination'' (1935) (cover and frontis)
Source: https://t.co/LVI29DcIQu
Mermaids with Sea-Green Hair,
Arthur Rackham, The Wonder Book