Items matching fantasy (results page 1)

Frontispiece: A bride’s dreamDas Buch für Alle [the book for everyone] (1890)

Traum einter Braut. Mit Genehmigung der Photographischen Gesellschaft in Berlin. Which is, A Bride’s Dream, with permission of the Photographic Society of Berlin. Here there bride rests her head on [...]

Keywords: romance, love, marriage, women, people, cherubs, putti, nudity, bare feet, dreams, trees, fantasy, greyscale

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Added: 2025-04-19

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Strength and CunningModerne Kunst in Meister-Holzschnitten Band VII (1893)

Kraft ud List, which is, Strength (the lion) and Cunning (the demoness or harpy). Here we have a lion with a chain around its neck; leaning against it is a dark-eyed winged woman; perhaps she holds th [...]

Keywords: lions, animals, demons, people, wings, women, imaginary creatures, fantasy, death, chains, greyscale

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Added: 2021-06-23

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The giants tore up treesArthur Rackham, His Life and Work (1960)

This painting was for The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (1906). Two giants persenting as male, beardless, dressed in animal skins, barefoot, are each wielding a tree, roots and all, as a weapon, i [...]

Keywords: giants, ogres, trees, bare feet, colour, fantasy, illustrations for children, spooky

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Added: 2024-09-23

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Goth skull with vinesTypo Ornamenty (1990)

This black and white goth skull line-drawing has a vine growing out of one eye-socket and all around the frame, with stylised aster flowers and acanthus leaves. There is also a coloured version of the [...]

Keywords: goth, gothic, skulls, death, vines, leaves, flowers, greyscale, fantasy

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Added: 2021-03-20

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Goth skull with vines, colour versionTypo Ornamenty (1990)

I coloured in a line-drawing of a skull with vines coming out of its eye-socket; this was a lot of fun and i tried to use an æsthetic compatiblewit a heavy metal album cover, although the image long [...]

Keywords: goth, colour, gothic, skulls, death, vines, leaves, flowers, fantasy

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Added: 2021-03-20

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Full-page template or border with castleStock Designs of Page Borders, Top Folio Headings, Tailpieces, Display Pages (1922)

A two-colour illustration of a mediæval castle and a rather tall tree sit on the right-hand side of this full-page template with a grey background and white solid lines on the right edge of the page f [...]

Keywords: borders, castles, full-page borders, illustrations, fantasy, spires, battlements, trees, clouds, greyscale

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Added: 2020-11-16

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Various Chapterheads or Heraldic Supprting DevicesTypo Ornamenty (1990)

A dragon, a wyvern, a swan, a stag turning into vines and foliage what more could you want? These designes generally go on either side of a crest, as shown in the third row, and here flank various dif [...]

Keywords: chapterheads, heraldry, mythical creatures, mythological creatures, dragons, wyverns, deer, fantasy, crosses, symbols, ornaments, greyscale

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Added: 2021-02-16

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Little Wee MenA Treasury of Verse for Little Children (1923)

The fairy folk climbing a hill made of clouds, and, beneath them, a fairy castle.

Keywords: colour, fairies, people, castles, fantasy, illustrations for children

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Added: 2007-08-05

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Queen MabA Treasury of Verse for Little Children (1923)

Queen Mab is a fairy with butterfly wings who brings dreams to people. She was described by Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet. I also made a version of Queen Mab with no words, and I also coloured in t [...]

Keywords: fairies, people, illustrations for children, fantasy, mythical creatures, greyscale

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Added: 2007-09-05

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Queen Mab (version without the words)A Treasury of Verse for Little Children (1923)

Queen Mab is a fairy with butterfly wings who brings dreams to people. She was described by Shakespeare in Romeo and Juliet This is a version of Queen Mab with the writing removed, so you can use mor [...]

Keywords: fairies, people, illustrations for children, fantasy, spirit, mythical creatures, greyscale

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Added: 2007-09-05

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Don Quixote in his StudyMagazine of Art Illustrated Vol 6 (1883)

From Doré’s Illustrations to “Don Quixote,” published by Messrs. Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., We can do no more than play at swords with him (in our frontispiece) in his study chair. His eyes are f [...]

Keywords: fantasy, people, men, interiors, mythical creatures, dreams, reading, books, swords, don quixote, imagination, greyscale

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Added: 2026-01-08

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The Prince With the Golden Hand (hand-coloured version)Slavonic Fairy Tales (1896)

As the prince gazed upon the splendid building the princess leaned out of one of the windows, and seeing him light shone from her sparkling eyes, her lovely hair floated in the wind, and the scent [...]

Keywords: colour, romance, people, royalty, illustrations for children, borders, interiors, castles, fantasy

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Added: 2011-01-11

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The Prince With the Golden HandSlavonic Fairy Tales (1896)

A black-and-white version of The Prince With the Golden Hand; my copy of this picture from a fairy-tale was hand-cloured, presumably by some previous owner of the book. See that image page for a short [...]

Keywords: people, royalty, illustrations for children, borders, interiors, castles, fantasy, romance, staircases, steps, greyscale

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Added: 2011-01-11

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If I had a broomstick 1A Treasury of Verse for Little Children (1923)

Illustration above the start of the poem “If I Had a Broomstick” showing a boy dreaming that he could fly on a broomstick. Maybe he was reading Harry Potter books? The illustration is signed K. Nixon [...]

Keywords: chapterheads, illustrations for children, children, occult, people, fantasy, greyscale

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Added: 2007-08-06

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If I had a Broomstick 2A Treasury of Verse for Little Children (1923)

A boy sits on a broomstick and flies high over a fantasy land of tall stone houses by the sea, He does not appear to be steering the broomstick: this is the sort of fantasy where you don’t have to do [...]

Keywords: illustrations for children, people, children, borders, occult, fantasy, greyscale

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Added: 2007-09-05

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The robber was watching him curiouslyLittle Folks Magazine Vol 64 (1906)

This picture was made to illustrate a chapter from the children’s story “Gideon and the Magic Myrtle” by Myra Hamilton. these days people probably think of Harry Potter and Dumbledore! It’s signed by [...]

Keywords: wizards, people, illustrations for children, beards, candles, fantasy, weapons, greyscale

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Added: 2016-11-04

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Wizard with book and candleLittle Folks Magazine Vol 64 (1906)

A wizard, complete with pointy hat and beard, sits at a table; there’s a large open book on the table and a wax candle in a tall candlestick gives off light. This is a detail from a picture by H. R. M [...]

Keywords: wizards, people, illustrations for children, beards, candles, fantasy, greyscale

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Added: 2016-11-04

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