solstice child

[7pleiades7]

Isabella and the Pot of Basil (1919) by George Henry Grenville Manton (English, 1855 – 1932), oil on canvas, 107 × 82.2 cm, Wycombe Museum, England

[heaveninawildflower]

Hollyhocks (1882) by John La Farge (American, 1835–1910).

Leaded glass window from the Frederick Lothrop Ames house in Boston.

Saint Louis Art Museum.

[7pleiades7]

The Danaïdes (The Danaides) (1903) by John William Waterhouse RA (English, 1849 – 1917), oil on canvas, 154.3 × 111 cm (60.7 x 43.7 in), Private Collection

[sunbathe]

mk.ndure by yvonne.spiegelhauer

[enchantedbook]

From Friedrich Wilhelm Carové’s 'The Story Without End'. Illustration by Frank Cheyne Papé, 1912.

[frostedmagnolias]

Dragonfly Comb

c. 1905

by Paul Frédéric Fallot

Musée des Arts Décoratifs

[mermaidenmystic]

La Cascade ~ 1906 ~ Paul-Albert Besnard (French painter and printmaker, 1849-1934)

[danskjavlarna]

Source details and larger version.

[clawmarks]

The rose - Annie French - undated - via Sotheby's

[lamignonette]

[classicalcanvas]

Galatea (1847) by Charles Jalabert

[triplab]

triplab + Lucy

[urgetocreate]

Ida Rentoul Outhwaite (Australian 1888-1960), Fairy Scattering Stars - The Enchanted Forest, 1921, Ink on paper

[thereadersdesire]

[nocnitsa]

Alexander Rothaug- "Bergfrühling"

[enchantedbook]

The knight’s encounter with the mysterious faery lady, an otherworldly figure who enchants him, draws him away from the world of men, and leaves his soul bound to her spell.

“I met a lady in the meads, Full beautiful, a faery’s child…”

From John Keats’s poem "La Belle Dame sans Merci." Engraving after Edward Brewtnall, 1881.

[thefae]

by Asako Eguchi