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    Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures
    Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures
    Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures
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    Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures

    By Arthur Rackham and Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch

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    With his distinctive blend of humor and romance, English illustrator Arthur Rackham (1867–1939) recaptured scenes from a thrilling fairy tale world — a realm shadowed by danger, yet suffused with a sense of sweetness and light. His images enjoyed both popular and critical success, conveying a mood of joy and wonder in a style that has influenced generations of children and artists. This splendid survey of Rackham's early, pre–World War II work features 44 color plates in addition to several black-and-white vignettes and spot illustrations.
    The images consist of the goblins, giants, elves, fairies, and other grotesque and fantastic creatures that Rackham depicted so well. Fanciful scenes portray characters from familiar fairy tales — Jack and the Beanstalk, the Frog Prince, Puss in Boots, and the Snow Queen — as well as folkloric figures such as Jack Frost and Mother Goose and idealized portraits of Edwardian-era children. This volume includes many long-unavailable works that are not to be found elsewhere. Brief captions identify the source of each image.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateApr 17, 2013
    ISBN9780486268262
    Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures
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    Arthur Rackham

    Arthur Rackham (1867–1939) was a British illustrator.

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      A rather random collection of some of Rackham's well-known fantasy illustrations. He did have a gift for vivid line drawing, though the effect is sometimes rather spidery for my taste.

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    Arthur Rackham's Book of Pictures - Arthur Rackham

    PLATE 1

    The Magic Cup

      [Frontispiece]

    ARTHUR RACKHAM’S

    BOOK OF PICTURES

    WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY

    SIR ARTHUR QUILLER-COUCH

    ARTHUR RACKHAM

    DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.

    Mineola, New York

    Bibliographical Note

    Arthur Rackham’s Book of Pictures, first published by Dover Publications, Inc., in 2011, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published by Heinemann, Inc., London, in 1913. As in the original edition, Plate 1 is the Frontispiece, and Plates 2 through 44 constitute the color-plate section.

    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

    Rackham, Arthur, 1867–1939.

    Arthur Rackham’s book of pictures / Arthur Rackham ; introduction by Arthur Quiller-Couch.

    p. cm.

    Originally published: London : Heinemann, 1913.

    ISBN-13: 978-0-486-48354-2

    ISBN-10: 0-486-48354-1

    1. Rackham, Arthur, 1867–1939—Themes, motives. I. Title. II. Title: Book of pictures.

    NC978.5.R32A4 2011

    741.942—dc23

    2011036101

    Manufactured in the United States by Courier Corporation

    48354101

    www.doverpublications.com

    Contents

    Pictures

    Introduction

    PICTURES

    I   OF THE

    LITTLE

    PEOPLE

    1   THE MAGIC CUP [FRONTISPIECE]

    2   ELVES

    3   SEEKERS FOR TREASURE

    4   GOBLIN THIEVES

    5   BY THE WAY

    6   THE LITTLE PEOPLE’S MARKET

    7   WEE FOLK

    8   MALICE

    9   THE MAN WHO WAS TERRIFIED BY GOBLINS

    II   CLASSIC

    10   DANAË

    Danaë was the daughter of the king of Argos, Acrisius. An oracle had foretold that she would one day give birth to a son, who would kill her father. So Acrisius for safety’s sake shut her up in a tower, where, nevertheless, she was visited by Zeus in a shower of gold and became the mother of Perseus. Acrisius put the mother and child into a chest and exposed them on the sea. But the chest drifted ashore

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