Great Literature Illustrated

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Originally Posted by andave_ya

OOh, Janine, thanks for those Parrish pictures. One of them, the girl in blue with her head down in her hands, on the chair, is used as a cover of an Enya cd.

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You know, now that you mentioned that I recall seeing it also on Enya's album cover. Do you know which cover it is? Actually, I though the painting by Parrish was a male, but maybe it is a female, perhaps a queen. I guess I was picturing it as a king who was in despear.

I plan on posting more Parrish pictures - I found many more last night but have to upload them to Photobucket first.
If you like the woman in blue you will like these I believe - they are quite blue; the first is a very famous one by Parrish; you may have seen it before; not sure which book or publication it was painted for originally. I think it is outstanding!

Ectasy
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...ld/Ectasy3.jpg

I love this one, too

Griselda
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...d/griselda.jpg

And here is one keeping in the spirit of the season called:

Harvest
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...ld/harvest.jpg

William Blake
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

William Blake in an 1807 portrait by Thomas Phillips.
Born 28 November 1757(1757-11-28)
London, England
Died 12 August 1827 (aged 69)
London, England
Occupation Poet, Painter, Printmaker
Literary movement Romanticism

Influences
Bible, Dante Alighieri, John Milton, Emanuel Swedenborg

Influenced:
William Butler Yeats, Hart Crane, Kahlil Gibran, Allen Ginsberg, John Gardner

William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake's work is now considered seminal in the history of both poetry and the visual arts. Blake's prophetic poetry has been said to form "what is in proportion to its merits the least read body of poetry in the English language".[1] His visual artistry has led one modern critic to proclaim him "far and away the greatest artist Britain has ever produced".[2] Although he only once travelled any farther than a day's walk outside London over the course of his life,[3] his creative vision engendered a diverse and symbolically rich corpus, which embraced 'imagination' as "the body of God",[4] or "Human existence itself".[5]

For more on Blake see - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake

Infenrnosm
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...Infenrnosm.jpg

Abel
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...-abelsmall.jpg

Sconfitta
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...liam_Blake.jpg

Book of Urizen
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...rizenBlake.jpg

The Blasphemer
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...Blasphemer.jpg

Lake - Last Judgment
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...Judgment-1.jpg

Job
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...e/BlakeJob.jpg

Blake Illustration XI
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...strationXI.jpg

Eve of the fall - "Paradise Lost"
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...radiseLost.jpg

Antaeus Setting Down Dante and Virgil
http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...nteandVerg.jpg

I love the work of Blake

Here are some more

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2005/...b__430x305.jpg

http://www.abm-enterprises.net/artga...ke-pegasus.jpg

http://www.canvasreplicas.com/images...am%20Blake.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...r_adao_eva.jpg

http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/Mythol...lliamBlake.jpg
Of course I absolutely adore his Hecate

http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb...4-87D8A6B0.jpg

http://www.apocalyptic-theories.com/...kebeast2bg.jpg

Wow, I like the ones you posted even better, Dark Muse. Those are so cool and the prints are really clear. I love that third one down; the second, firth and sixth are nothing to sneeze at. These are spectacular! Glad I checked back for a peek.

For Halloween I have prepared this illustrated tribute to Edgar Allan Poe

http://kimmco.typepad.com/photos/unc...ed/fv_1894.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._Vallotton.jpg

Portraits By Félix Vallotton

Harry Clarke

Ligeia
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...eia-Clarke.jpg

http://www.grandmasgraphics.com/grap...oe/poe032a.jpg

The Murders in the Rue Morgue
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/im...ue-Posters.jpg

The Tell-Tale Heart
http://imagecache2.allposters.com/im...om-Posters.jpg

http://www.grandmasgraphics.com/grap...oe/poe286a.jpg

The Masque of the Red Death
http://www.grandmasgraphics.com/grap...oe/poe272a.jpg

http://www.grandmasgraphics.com/grap...oe/poe160a.jpg

The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
http://www.grandmasgraphics.com/grap...oe/poe384a.jpg

A Decent into the Maelstrom
http://www.grandmasgraphics.com/grap...oe/poe104a.jpg

The Cask of Amontillado
http://www.grandmasgraphics.com/grap...oe/poe400a.jpg

Pit and the Pendulum
http://www.grandmasgraphics.com/grap...oe/poe282a.jpg

The Premature Burial
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ial-Clarke.jpg

M.S. Found in a Bottle
http://www.grandmasgraphics.com/grap...oe/poe014a.jpg

Fall of the House of Usher
http://www.grandmasgraphics.com/grap...oe/poe026a.jpg

The Oval Portrait
http://www.grandmasgraphics.com/grap...oe/poe036a.jpg

The Man in the Crowd
http://www.grandmasgraphics.com/grap...oe/poe274a.jpg

The Gold Bug
http://www.grandmasgraphics.com/grap...oe/poe308a.jpg

http://www.grandmasgraphics.com/grap...oe/poe404a.jpg

The Black Cat
http://www.grandmasgraphics.com/grap...oe/poe334a.jpg

The Raven by Dore

He has several images for this poem. I just picked out a few of my favorites.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...re_Raven15.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ore_Raven3.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ore_Raven4.jpg

http://www.tate.org.uk/images/cms/13..._doreraven.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ore_Raven2.jpg

http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n.../116228040.jpg

http://www.poeparlor.com/ra/ravenpicbv.jpg

The Poetry of Poe by Edmund Dulac

Annabel Lee
http://spiritoftheages.com/Annabel%20Lee.jpg

Silence
http://spiritoftheages.com/Silence.jpg

Lenore
http://spiritoftheages.com/Lenore.jpg

To Helen
http://spiritoftheages.com/To%20Helen.jpg

The Haunted Place
http://spiritoftheages.com/The%20Haunted%20Palace.jpg

The City in the Sea
http://spiritoftheages.com/The%20Cit...0the%20Sea.jpg

The Sleeper
http://spiritoftheages.com/The%20Sleeper.jpg

The Conqueror Worm
http://spiritoftheages.com/The%20Conqueror%20Worm.jpg

Eldorado
http://spiritoftheages.com/Eldorado.jpg

To the River
http://spiritoftheages.com/To%20the%20River.jpg

Bridal Ballad
http://spiritoftheages.com/Bridal%20Ballad.jpg

Fairy Land
http://spiritoftheages.com/Fairy-Land.jpg

Israfel
http://spiritoftheages.com/Israfel.jpg

Dreamland
http://spiritoftheages.com/Dreamland.jpg

Alone
http://spiritoftheages.com/Alone.jpg

Lenore by Hnery Sandham

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ry_Sandham.JPG

The Raven by Tenniel
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...l-TheRaven.jpg

Dark Muse, this is an excellent tribute to Poe. I love the Clark's - so graphic and dramatic in the stark black and white. I love the Dore's and the Dulacs; I copied some of those (online to my own files) just the other day, but did not realise some of those Dulac's were Poe illustrations. Sandham I have not heard about, but I like the work. I like all the sets you posted; I will have to copy the ones I don't have, for my own offline Poe illustration folder. Thanks for posting so many! So appropriate for Halloween.

Yes I love the work of Clarke and he did a very vast collection on Poe. And I find the Dore' Raven images to be quite interesting.

I looked but could not find any other Poe by Sandham or Tenniel

I really like the Dulacs as well

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Originally Posted by Dark Muse

I think it is a problem with the site from which you liked the pictures from, as the first one, and one farther down is an image of a girl with a moose and under it, it says artscraftsy.com

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Yeah today I went to check and now I saw those reindeer pictures (I saw the real pictures before), I deleted the pictures which wouldn't link carefully.

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Originally Posted by Dark Muse

Yes I love the work of Clarke and he did a very vast collection on Poe. And I find the Dore' Raven images to be quite interesting.

I looked but could not find any other Poe by Sandham or Tenniel

I really like the Dulacs as well

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I loved all the Poe illustrations you posted, Dark Muse. They were all so 'Halloweeny', too. I had to go and change my profile page early this morning, since Halloween is over for this year. I went to my son's house last night and he had a great display - all Disney Halloween projected on his house, etc. Pirates of the C playing on a huge screen in his backyard, the light display on the side of the house, a graveyard out front and his car decaled like the one in "Cars".

I guess my momentum is broken now, because I am too tired out tonight to post any more photos in here or the other thread; I did look up some Shakespeare illustrations today and copied them. Tonight however I will try and copy the pictures you posted of Poe's work for my own offline files. I just love them - all the artists are good.

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Yeah today I went to check and now I saw those reindeer pictures (I saw the real pictures before), I deleted the pictures which wouldn't link carefully.

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Etienne, I knew you would sort it out and see what we were talking about. It is weird that attached to your other files. Glad you were able to fix it - looked strange with the Dulac inbetween, which no doubt was from a children's book anyway.

Here are some King Arthur by Thomas Mackenzie

http://spiritoftheages.com/TM%20AHK%205.jpg

http://spiritoftheages.com/TM%20AHK%206.jpg

http://spiritoftheages.com/TM%20AHK%207.jpg

http://spiritoftheages.com/TM%20AHK%208.jpg

http://spiritoftheages.com/TM%20AHK%209.jpg

http://spiritoftheages.com/TM%20AHK%2010.jpg

http://spiritoftheages.com/TM%20AHK%2011.jpg