Items taken from Arthur Rackham, His Life and Work (1960) (results page 1)

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

Places shown: none

Added: 2024-09-23

+ S K L

Dark brown fantasy watercolour borderArthur Rackham, His Life and Work (1960)

This border of symbols, grapes, eyes, and dark daisies, was painted by Arthur Rackham to surround the battle of giants.

Keywords: borders, colour, floriated borders, foliated borders, spooky, full-page borders

Places shown: none

Added: 2024-09-23

+ S K L

Adrift from The Snow QueenArthur Rackham, His Life and Work (1960)

A watercolour painting of a helpless little girl adrift in a rowing boat without oars, on the wrong side of the river from a distant village with a castle. Arthur Rackham made the picture to illustrat [...]

Keywords: people, children, girls, boats, water, despair, fear, villages, castles, paintings, winter, colour, illustrations for children

Places shown: none

Added: 2024-09-23

+ S K L

initial letter R with small girlArthur Rackham, His Life and Work (1960)

An inhabited initial letter “R” drawn for Mother Goose in 1913.

The letter looks a little rotated but was drawn that way as far as i can tell, and is only slightly improved by rotating it clockwise.

Keywords: letter, initials, children, illustrations for children, drawings, girls, people, inhabited initials, greyscale

Places shown: none

Added: 2024-09-23

+ S K L