Arthur Rackham

Arthur Rackham was an English Victorian artist who painted many illustrations for (mainly) childrens books. I really love his works as a whole, they are enchanting and beautiful. There is a great website that has some stunning photographs and details the books and stories he illustrated for - and it's quite an impressive list. They also have 2010 calendars. Another great site with information is here. I recommend this book, if you like what you see.


These are some of my favorite images and their titles. You can click each picture for a larger view.

Top -Feeling Very Undancy
Left -Undine in the Wind
Right -Ashenputtel
Bottom -Three Legged Dragon







A list of "notable works" (from Wikipedia)

* The Zankiwank and the Bletherwitch by Shafto Justin Adair Fitzgerald (40 line, 1896)
* Two Old Ladies, Two Foolish Fairies, and a Tom Cat by Maggie Browne (pseud. Margaret Hamer) (4 colour plates, 19 line, 1897)
* The Ingoldsby Legends by Thomas Ingoldsby (pseud. Richard Harris Barham) (12 colour, 80 line 1898, reworked edition 23 colour plates, 73 line 1907)
* Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (95 line, 1900, reworked edition 40 colour plates, 62 line, 1909)
* Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (11 line 1900, reworked edition 12 colour plates, 34 line, 1909)
* Rip van Winkle by Washington Irving (51 colour plates, 3 line, 1905)
* Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J.M.Barrie (50 colour plates, 3 line, 1906, new edition 50 colour plates, 12 line, 1912)
* Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (13 colour plates, 15 line 1907)
* A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (40 colour plates, 34 line, 1908)
* Undine by Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué (15 colour plates, 41 line, 1909)
* The Rhinegold and The Valkyrie by Richard Wagner(34 colour plates, 8 line, 1910)
* Siegfried and The Twilight of the Gods by Richard Wagner (32 colour plates, 8 line, 1911)
* Aesop's Fables by Aesop (13 colour plates, 82 line, 1912)
* Mother Goose (13 colour plates, 78 line 1913)
* The Allies Fairy Book (12 colour plates, 23 line 1916)
* Little Brother and Little Sister by The Brothers Grimm (13 colour plates, 45 line 1917)
* The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table by Alfred W. Pollard (23 colour and monotone plates, 16 line, 1917)
* English Fairy Tales by Flora Annie Steel (16 colour plates, 43 line, 1918)
* The Springtide of Life by Algernon Charles Swinburne (8 colour plates, 1918)
* Some British Ballads (16 colour plates, 23 line, 1918)
* Cinderella ed. Charles S. Evans (1 colour plate, 60 silhouettes, 1919)
* The Sleeping Beauty ed. Charles S. Evans (1 colour plate, 65 silhouettes, 1920)
* Irish Fairy Tales by James Stephens (16 colour plates, 20 line, 1920)
* Comus by John Milton (22 colour plates, 35 line, 1922)
* A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne (16 colour plates, 21 line, 1922)
* The Tempest by William Shakespeare (20 colour plates, 20 line, 1926)
* The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith (12 colour plates, 23 line, 1929)
* The Compleat Angler by Izaak Walton (12 colour plates, 22 line, 1931)
* Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen (12 colour plates, 43 line, 9 silhouettes 1932)
* Tales of Mystery & Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe (12 colour plates, 28 line, 1935)
* Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen (12 colour plates, 38 line, 1936)
* The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (16 colour plates, posthumously 1940 US, 1950 UK)