#golden age of illustration

the-evil-clergyman:

The Assembling of the Fays, from Through Fairy Halls of My Bookhouse by Maud and Miska Petersham (1925)

1909 illustration by John BauerbyPlum leaves on Flickr.

the-evil-clergyman:

At Last Sir Gareth Overcame the Red Knight, from Arthur and His Knights by Thomas Mackenzie (1925)

the-evil-clergyman:

Odysseus in the Land of the Dead, from The Odyssey of Homer by N. C. Wyeth (1929)

the-evil-clergyman:

Queen Maeve, from The Century Magazine by J. C. Leyendecker (January 1907)