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Anne Anderson (British/Scottish, 1874-1930, illustrator) • The Gillyflower Garden Book • 1915 • Thomas Nelson & Sons. London, publishers

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Fritzi Brod (American, 1937 - 2005) • Woman Asleep • 1940 • Lithograph on white wove paper • Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C.

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Arthur Rackham (British/English, ), illustrator for English Fairy Tales by Flora Annie Steel • 1918

”Somebody has been at my porridge, and has eaten it all up!”

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Coles Phillips (American, 1880-1927) • Advertising illustration for Holeproof Hosiery • c. 1922 • Original painted in watercolor

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Garth Williams, illustrator (American, 1912 - 1996) • Illustration to Wait Until the Moon is Full by Margaret Wise Brown (American, 1910 - 1952) • 1948

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Edmund Dulac (French/British, 1882 - 1953) • Woman in a Garden with Birds • 1917 • Gouache, gold and silver paint on paper laid on board

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E.M.A. Steinmetz (American, b. 19th - ?) • An Illustration for Vogue Magazine

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Leon Bakst (Russian, 1863 - 1924) • Costume design for a bacchante in the ballet Narcisse by Tcherepnin • 1911 • Watercolor on paper • Private collection

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Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel (French, 1850–1913) • Advertising for Dr. Pierre's toothpaste for Maîtres de l'Affiche magazine • 1895

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Edward Gorey (British) • Illustration for stage design for the adaptation of Bram Stocker's Frankenstein on Broadway • 1977

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sevenstoneeyes

🧡 🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟✨ // for day 3 of folktale week 2023: sea! // gouache on paper

a little study of scales, texture, and light for a larger project I'm working on! also made this one into wrapping paper because I CAN'T be the only one who wants to wrap fish presents for people????

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Katherine Pyle (American, 1863-1938) • Illustration to Goldilocks and the Three Bears, from the collection Mother's Nursery Tales • 1918

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Yuri Vasnetsof, illustrator (Russian, 1900 - 1973) • Illustration for Magpie! Magpie! (A collection of Russian folk rhymes) • Irina Zheleznova, translator • Unknown publication date

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John R. Neill (American, 1877 - 1943) • Illustration for The Land of Oz by Frank L. Baum • Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Company, 1904

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Card representing the Scorpio zodiac sign from Urania's Mirror, a set of 32 astronomical star chart cards published in 1824. Holes punched in the card allowed viewers to see a depiction of the constellation's stars when they held it in front of a light.

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Gene Pressler (American, 1893 - ?) • Cover for The National Sunday Magazine of the Pittsburgh Register • Early 20th century

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Georges de Feure (Dutch/French, 1868 - 1943) • Titania dancing • Gouache over traces of pencil on paper