Fantasy and Folklore Illustrations

Whimsical illustrations inspired by fairy tales and nursery rhymes, showcasing enchanting landscapes and fantasy characters in rich colors.

Noli Me Tangere (Don't Cry for Me) James Tissot (1836-1902/French)

There was an old woman lived under a hill - Nursery Rhyme

The Angel and the Shepherds (L'ange et les bergers) James Tissot (French, 1836-1902). The Angel and the Shepherds (L'ange et les bergers), 1886-1894. Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, Image: 5 9/16 x 7 9/16 in. (14.1 x 19.2 cm). In Lukes Gospel, the shepherds in the hills and valleys surrounding Bethlehem first learn of the miraculous event from an angel who announces the birth of the Savior. The accompanying angels joyously sing their praise of God and urge good will to men, a passage that gives its name to a well-known hymn, “Gloria in Excelsis Deo” (Glory to God in the Highest). In the text he wrote to accompany this image, Tissot explains the local practices for pasturage in the Middle East, noting that small bands of shepherds gathered around campfires and alternated watches to care for their flocks. Attentive to this practical detail, Tissot casts the faces of his shepherds in the orange glow of their warming fire—a striking contrast to the verdant surrounding

1910s ILLUSTRATION FAIRY TALE PRINCE AND DRAGON BY WARWICK GOBLE (22 November 1862 - 22 January 1943)

Illustration to the national epic Kalevala, Kochergin, Nikolai Mikhaylovich (1897-1974)

Coloured reproduction of a decorative panel painted by Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940)

Francis Drake 1545-1596. English navigator and privateer. The first Englishman to see the Pacific Ocean 1572.

Noli Me Tangere (Don't Cry for Me) James Tissot (1836-1902/French)

Rain, Rain, Go Away - Nursery Rhyme

The Meeting of Oberon and Titania. Arthur Rackham (1867-1939). Pen and black ink and watercolour. Signed and dated 1908. 21.8 x 34.2cm. Illustation was intended for 1908 edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream, but never used.

The Return Home, Print made by Edward Calvert, 1799-1883, British, 1830, Wood-engraving on moderately thick, smooth, beige wove paper, Sheet: 3 11/16 x 6 1/16 inches (9.4 x 15.4 cm) and Image: 1 5/8 x 3 inches (4.1 x 7.6 cm), animal art, donkey, flowers (plants), genre subject, hills, home, house, husband, landscape, man, road, shepherd, shepherd's crook, trees, wife, woman

Merlin and Nimue - How by her subtle working she made Merlin to go under the stone to let her wit of the marvels there; and she wrought so there for him that he came never out for all the craft he could do. King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table

Second Boer War (1899-1902), Amsterdam, Looy, SL van, L'Assiette au Beurre, Veber, Jean, Queen Victoria in Hell and Mrs. Krüger in Heaven, print, prent, prints, prenten, Frans, 1864-02-13 - 1928-11-28, print maker, prentmaker, 1874 - 1928, paper, color lithography (process), Publication (Event), Publication, publisher, Unspecified event

Illustration for No Trifling with Love (On ne badine pas avec l'Amour); 1834 French drama by Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay (1810 - 1857); French dramatist, poet, and novelist.

Pan and Syrinx. Dating: c. 1637 - c. 1640. Measurements: h 49.5 cm × w 37 cm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Author: Caesar Boëtius van Everdingen (mentioned on object).

Kensington Gardens in London. Scene from Peter Pan

Painting titled 'St. Francis in Ecstasy' by Giovanni Bellini (1430-1516) Italian Renaissance painter. Dated 15th Century

The death of Frederick. Prince of Wales. at the age of 44 in 1751 at Leicester House. England. digital reproduction of a historical original

Madame du Barry, Mistress of King louis XV of France, 1937. Artist: Alexander K MacDonald

Rubbish and Rhubarb. James C. Tarr (1905-1996). Oil on canvas. 25 1/8 x 30 1/8in.

The Hague, Royal Dutch Lithography of CW Mieling, Verveer, Elchanon, Four girls before a door, verso - stamped, A girl sits on a chair before a door and leans against the chest of the girl next to her. Next to them stands a girl with roses in her hand and sits a girl with roses and a basket., print, prints, height 506 mm, width 348 mm, Dutch, 1826-04-19 - 1900-08-24, print maker, printmaker, 1847 - 1865, paper, papier, lithografie (techniek), Work conception, after own design by, printer, drukker

THOMAS of CantimprŽ (1201-1276). Codex Granatensis: De natura rerum. 15th c. Illustration about the peony. Edition of Granada of the original of the 13th C. Gothic art. Miniature Painting. SPAIN. ANDALUSIA. Granada. Granada University Library.

Date: 1914

He brought them home by the very same way they came - Scene from Little Thumb, a Fairy Tale

French postcard with images of flowers 1900

SIR FRANCIS DRAKE (1545 - 1596) is the first Englishman to view the Pacific Ocean, which he will traverse in the course of his round- the-world voyage.

Sleeping Beauty is woken by the handsome prince with a kiss after sleeping for a hundred years. Date: 1920

'Entangled in the Net', c1910. Creator: Unknown.

In Greek mythology, the sphinx was a monstrous winged creature with the head of a female. It met any traveler/visitor trying to enter the city of Thebes and asked the person to answer a riddle (what walks on four legs when it is young, two in as an adult, and three as an old person - answer - human). Death was the reward for all who failed to answer. Oedipus answered the question, as seen here with the sphinx and the skeltons of those who failed, and was able to enter Thebes. Oedipus was the mythical king of Thebes. But the oracle of Apollo at Delphi had told his father Laius that a son of Laius and his wife Jocasta would kill Laius. When Oedipus was born, Laius had given Oedipus to a servant with orders to abandon the infant. The servant could not In time, Oedipus came back to Thebes, unaware of his true background, and met the sphinx, solved the riddle and entered the city.

This image, dating to around 1899, shows Edward the Sixth. Edward VI became king at the age of nine upon the death of his father, Henry VIII, and a Regency was created. Edward VI was King of England and Ireland from January 28, 1547, until his death in 1553. He was crowned on February 20, 1547, at the age of nine. Edward was the son of Henry VIII and Jane Seymour and the first English monarch to be raised as a Protestant. The artist is Frances Brundage, an American who died in 1937.

Hesperides and Snake, Leighton, Frederic, 1892

Brunnhilde on Grane leaps on the Funeral Pyre of Siegfried in The Twilight of the Gods - Arthur Rackham, circa 1911

Parade of elves and fairies in the train of the elf king. Handcoloured woodblock print by Edmund Evans after an illustration by Richard Doyle from In Fairyland, a series of Pictures from the Elf World, Longman, London, 1870.

Illustration for Hyalis. Le petit faune aux yeux bleus. the novel by Albert Samain, (1858 - 1900). illustration by G. Mossa. Paris 1918.

Girl from a rich family sits dreamily in the garden under a rose bush. She dreams of many adoring men who want to be with her, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact original date not known

THOMAS of CantimprŽ (1201-1276). Codex Granatensis: De natura rerum. 15th c. Illustration about Basil. Edition of Granada of the original of the 13th C. Gothic art. Miniature Painting. SPAIN. ANDALUSIA. Granada. Granada University Library.

Hiram, The Founder of the Two Pillars James Tissot (1836-1902 French)

THOMAS of CantimprŽ (1201-1276). Codex Granatensis: De natura rerum. 15th c. Illustration about stavesacre. Edition of Granada of the original of the 13th C. Gothic art. Miniature Painting. SPAIN. ANDALUSIA. Granada. Granada University Library.

'Peter Kept Watch', (1923).Artist: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd

Artwork: "Waiting for a Jolly Green" Artist: Walt Green. Country: Unknown

Tightrope walker, circus, drawing with coloured pencil

fine arts, Spitzweg, Carl (1808 - 1885), painting, ""Schmetterlingsfaenger"" (Butterfly Catcher), oil on wood panel, 31 x 25 cm, 1840, municipal museum Wiesbaden, Germany,

Fresco on house with st. carlo borromeo, ono san pietro, Italy

Summer in Arcadia 1880 Albert Durer Lucas (1828-1918 British) Private Collection

Nobody asked you, Sir, she said.' Illustration by Randolph Caldecott for the Nursery Rhyme 'The Milkmaid'.

The punishment of matrimonial misconduct, anonymous woodcut of a Nuremberg master, 16th century

The Fairy Queen's Messenger: Illustration by R Doyle for a poem by William Allingham c1870.

El hombre y las fieras. Cacerías y pescas primitivas. Caza del tigre de Bengala con ayuda de elefantes. Cromo de Chocolates Eduardo Pi. Años 1964. Author: Joan Llaverias Labro.

Love in Spring, an illustration from Moderne Kunst in Meisterholzschnitten, a yearbook from 1900

How Beaumains defeated the Red Knight, and always the damosel spake many foul words unto him.

'Little Brother and Little Sister', 1917, (1923). Artist: Arthur Rackham.

Liberty Ca. 1800 Chinese, for American market During the Federal period, Americas growing strength and sense of self inspired countless images celebrating the new nations ideal of liberty, of which this painting, Liberty in the Form of the Goddess of Youth Giving Support to the Bald Eagle, is one example. Reverse painted on glass for the American market, the image is based upon a 1796 engraving of the same title by Edward Savage of Philadelphia. One of several surviving examples of this popular image, the painting depicts the Goddess of Liberty standing, supposedly, on Beacon Hill, with Boston Harbor in the distance, a reference to the recent evacuation of the British fleet from the harbor. As Liberty proffers a cup to the descending eagle, she tramples below her feet both the key to the Bastille, symbolizing the death of the monarchy in France, and the Star of the Order of the Garter of Britain, symbolizing Americas freedom from England.. Liberty 12929

Interior views of Albrechtsburg, Murals in Albrechtsburg, 1921, Meißen, Gemälde im Schloß Albrechtsburg, Germany

Consoler of monsters. Stabrowski, Kazimierz (1869-1929), painter

Illustration by Tenniel, from the 1890 edition of 'Alice in Wonderland' by Lewis Carroll.

They thanked her and said goodbye, and she went on her journey - Scene from the Three Heads of the Well

Little Red Riding Hood about to begin her trip

French postcard, c1900. Artist: Unknown

Indian miniature painting water color on paper kaidara ragini, Rajasthan, India Copyright: xSafatxAli/DinodiaxPhotox

MEHOFFER, Jozef (1869-1946). The Strange Garden. 1903. Symbolism. Oil on canvas. POLAND. Warsaw. National Museum in Warsaw.

A chimney sweep looks over the top of the chimney, from where, through an open window, he sees a man and a woman embracing at 1900, Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert.

The Winter; 1563; by Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527ñ1593)

Elaine on road to Cave of Lancelot, by Gustave Dore, from Idylls of the King, (1832-1883), USA, Illinois, Chicago, Newberry Library

ESCENA DEL QUIJOTE - HISTORIA DE CARDENIO Y LUSCINDA - SIGLO XX. Author: SEGRELLES JOSE. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION.

The tailor meeting with the giant, illustration for The Brave Little Tailor, fairy tale by the Grimm brothers, Jacob (1785-1863) and Wilhelm (1786-1859), drawing.

Waiting, John Everett Millais, 1854,

The Festival of St Swithin,The Dovecot, William Holman Hunt, 1966-1875,

Jupiter Driving Cronus from Olympus

An unhappy Thumbelina curtsies to the Tiresome Old Mole, who falls in love with her and wants her to live with him underground. Illustration to a fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen, first published 1835. Date: 1959

c.1930 Don Blanding painting in black and white of silhouette of women standing by ocean

NIÑOS CONTEMPLANDO EL ARBOL DE NAVIDAD. Author: STEPHAN MESSERSCHMIDT (1929-). Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Bringing Wood To Village by M. Dukin, Oil On Canvas, 20th Century

Detalle de pinturas murales de lac Sala Capitular del Monasterio de Montserrat. Cataluña. Author: PERE PRUNA.

Relief illustration on a tomb. Hunting scene. Original carved in stone. Dinasty 12 (1850 b.c.) Middle Kingdom,Egypt. Engraving, later colouration.

Humorous Wine Illustration 1946, Illustration by Julien Pavil, (1895-1952), French 20th century illustrator, humourist and poster artist. He illustrated several books between 1929 and 1945.

Woman standing at a gazebo

Archer with crossbow, 15th cent. woodcut.

Scenery for opera "Tristan and Isolde" by Wagner 1886 by Max Brucker. Museum: Wagner Museum, Bayreuth, GERMANY.

Painting titled 'Baby in a High-Chair' by Nico Jungmann. Nico Jungmann (1872-1935) an Anglo-Dutch painter of landscapes and figural subjects. Dated 20th Century

Painting titled 'Two Ballet Dancers on the Stage' by Edgar Degas (1834-1917) a French artist and sculptor. Dated 19th Century

In Greek mythology, Echo was a nymph whom Hera punished by making it impossible for her to speak first or to be silent whenever anyone else was speaking. She fell in love with Narcissus, for whom she pined until only her voice was lefthence, the derivation of the word "echo." Apollo punished Narcissus for spurning Echo by having him fall in love with himself when he saw his reflection in the water of a fountain.

A Great Lady, a great lady, painting by John Maler Collier January 28, 1850 - April 11, 1934, British writer and painter, historical, digitally restored reproduction of a template from the 19th century, Record Date Not Stated

In the Fork, N.C. Wyeth

Women escaping from scary castle and night

Young woman outside mansion, oil painting

'Untitled'. Collection of Georges Matcheret and Nadiya Volkonskaya. 1997. Dimensions: 282x208 mm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Denis Gordeev.

Panel outside Uffizi Gallery (Sandro Botticelli - Angels of the painting : Madonna della Melagrana), Firenze, Florence, UNESCO World heritage site, Tuscany, Italy

Scribner's August,' 1899-1906, by William J. Glackens (1870-1938). The illustration features a seashore scene with children, men, and women depicted in clothing from the late 19th to early 20th century

Hey Fellers, Come On In!. Date/Period: 1920. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 508 mm (20 in); Width: 482.60 mm (19 in). Author: Norman Rockwell.

vintage painting of a decorative easter-scene

c.1910 Siren of Southern Sea, drawing of silhouetted female and palms at sunset, reflections, sheet music

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