#golden age of illustration

the-evil-clergyman:

Illustration from Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene by Walter Crane (1895)

East of the Sun and West of the Moon, Old Tales from the North by Kay Nielsen, 1914

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

Alceste and the God of Love, from The Complete Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer by Warwick Goble (1912)

Illustrations from Shakespeare’s Hamlet by John Austen (1922)

He Scared Away and Put to Flight All the Devils, from Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel by Frank C. Pape (1927)

Excalibur, from The Boy’s King Arthur by N. C. Wyeth (1919)

Illustration from Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene by Walter Crane (1895)

Illustrations from Joseph Jacobs’ European Folk and Fairy Tales by John D. Batten (1916)

Illustrations from Dante’s Divine Comedy by Donn P. Crane 

Endpapers from Legends of Charlemagne by N. C. Wyeth (1924)

Illustration from The Heroes: Or Greek Fairy Tales for My Children by W. Russell Flint (1912)

Illustrations from Marcel Schwob’s Vies Imaginaires by Georges Barbier (1929)

Title Page from The Tale of Lohengrin, Knight of the Swan after the Drama of Richard Wagner by Willy Pogany (1913)

Cover Art for Tom Hall’s When Hearts Are Trumps by Will Bradley (1895)

Illustration from Ludovico Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso by Gustave Doré (1881)

Illustration from Carmen Sylva’s The Dreamer of Dreams by Edmund Dulac (1900)

The King on His Dragon Fights His Way Through the Monsters to the Queen and Muffette, from The Frog and Lion Fairy for Andrew Lang’s The Orange Fairy Book by Henry Justice Ford (1906)

manyworldspress:

“Sir Olaf in a kingdom of wraiths and ghosts.” Kay Nielsen, illustration (with detail) for InPowder and Crinoline, by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1913). Personal photo of the original watercolor painting, on display in “Kay Nielsen’s Enchanted Vision: The Kendra and Allan Daniel Collection,” exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, January 19, 2020.

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manyworldspress:

“So the man gave him a pair of snowshoes.” Kay Nielsen, plate from “The Three Princesses of Whiteland,” in East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Old Tales from the North (London, 1914). Reproduced, from the first printing, in Taschen’s centennial edition (April 2020).

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