Fairy Tale Book Art

Exquisite illustrative art found in picture books and fairy tales

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John Austen, illustration for Hamlet, 1922.

[xshayarsha]

Edmund Dulac’s illustrations for Hans Christian Andersen’s The Wind’s Tale.

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’Wassilissa put the skull on the end of a stick and darted away through the forest.’

Illustration by I. A. Bilibin taken from ‘Russian Wonder Tales’ (Wassilissa the Beautiful). Published 1912 by Adam & Charles.

Robarts - University of Toronto

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Art by Stephen Reid (1909) - Mermaid art.

[templeofapelles]

Edwin Austin Abbey Galahad and the Grail

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George Sheringham (British, 1884–1937)

The Cauldron of Anwn, circa 1902

Baptism of Dylan, Son of the Wave

Playing music

Bronwen

The Serpent of the Mount of Morning

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The Princess and the Trolls –The Changeling, by John Bauer, 1913.

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Jessie Marion King

Beauty in the beast’s garden. British, 1875-1949

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Pavel Bazhov “The Malachite Casket”, illustration by V. Nazaruk, 1989 (via etsy)

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Ivan Bilibin (Russian, 1876 – 1942)

The Bogatyr Volga Transforms Himself into a Pike, illustration for the Russian Fairy Tale, ‘The Volga’, St Petersburg, 1903

Kozorog, 1903

[sovietpostcards]

Pavel Bazhov “The Malachite Casket”, illustration by V. Nazaruk, 1989 (via etsy)

[turnbullrarebooks]

‘ “Tell me the way, then,” she said, “and I’ll search you out” ’

Illustration by Kay Nielsen in East of the sun and west of the moon (1914), (198 x 150 mm), Alexander Turnbull Library, qRPr HODD NIEL 1914.

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Arthur Rackham, illustration Aesop’s Fables, 1913. Hachette, Paris. The complete book online via gallicalabs 

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Sulamith Wulfing

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Elenore Abbott (American, 1875 – 1935): Illustration from The Two Brothers (1920) (via Wikimedia Commons)

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fairytalemood:

art from “Beauty and the Beast” by Hilary Knight