Swedish Folk Tales and FantasiesBauer was born in Jönköping and showed artistic talent from an early age. When he was 16, he left home to study art in Stokholm and within two years, he was attending the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts. His first major commission was established in 1904 and a suite of images arising from the commission was later published in Lappland : Det Stora Svenska Framtidslandet - En skildring i ord och bild af dess natur och folk. Three years later, Bauer began to work on a suite of coloured and monochromes images that was to be the first in a series for which he would gain lasting fame : Bland Tomtar Och Troll, first published for Christmas in 1907. Bauer continued as the sole contributor for the annual Swedish publication until his final suite of illustrations of the 1915 edition. Russian Fairy Tales |
| Florence Anderson was an English artist active as a book illustrator throughout the first three decades of the 20th Century. Her art was influenced by the British Fairy School. Her first major commission appears to have been an extensive suite of colour but also monochrome illustrations prepared for The Dream Pedlar published in 1914. Anderson received further substantial commissions throughout the decade that followed, including major suites such as TTravelling Companions (1915) ; Fairy Tales from Brazil (1916) ; The Magic Kiss (1916) and The Twin Knights of France (1919). |
English Fantasy Tales
Undine (1909) The Valkyries (1910) and Siegfried (1911)
Arthur Rackham illustrated Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty (1900), Alice in Wonderland (1907), The Rhinegold and the Valkyries (1910), Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods (1911) and well known fairytale books : Irish legends, Arthurian cycles, Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination, Peter Pan adventures and A Midsummer Night's Dream among other things.
The French Master of Epic Wood Engraving
Illustrating the Bible / Paradise Lost and Charles Perrault
Doré ne s'est pas contenté de battre les records de son époque par une productivité hors du commun ; il a nourri l'ambition de construire une oeuvre d'illustrateur en soi, une bibliothèque idéale illustrée. Les années 1860 marquent le sommet de son activité : les Contes de Perrault paraissent en 1862, offrant un contrepoint « merveilleux divertissant, spirituel, émouvant jusque dans le comique et comique jusque dans l’émouvant » au « merveilleux dans ce qu’il a de plus funèbre, de plus tragique et de plus ardu » de L’Enfer de Dante. Puis les collaborations avec Hachette se succèdent à rythme régulier : Atala de Chateaubriand et Don Quichotte de Cervantès en 1863, Les Fables de La Fontaine en 1865 et La Sainte Bible en 1866. À ce bel ensemble, on peut ajouter le reportage consacré à la capitale anglaise à l’époque victorienne : London, a Pilgrimage, qui paraitra en 1872. Quatre ans avant sa mort, en 1879, l’illustration du poème héroïque de l’Arioste, Le Roland Furieux, chef d’œuvre de la littérature chevaleresque de la Renaissance, vient clore prématurément la bibliothèque illustrée de Doré.
Illustrating The Golden Legend
Stories of Virtuous Heroism and Medieval Romance
Sydney Meteyard iss an English artist associated with the Preraphaelite painters William Morris and Edward Burne Jones and was a member of the Birmingham Group.
Here are the complete illustrations of The Golden Legend as written by Sir Henry Wadsworth :
001 - 006 - 008 - 011 - 013 - 014 - 015 - 016 - 018 - 031 - 043 - 055 - 061 - 069 - 075 - 087 - 099 - 111
135 - 159 - 171 - 177 - 203 - 215 - 227 - 239 - 251 - 263
Here are the complete illustrations of The Golden Legend as written by Sir Henry Wadsworth :
001 - 006 - 008 - 011 - 013 - 014 - 015 - 016 - 018 - 031 - 043 - 055 - 061 - 069 - 075 - 087 - 099 - 111
135 - 159 - 171 - 177 - 203 - 215 - 227 - 239 - 251 - 263