Great Literature Illustrated

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Interesting word, andave, 'ecooooooooooool'. Is that like email or ebay or ecards?

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oops, :lol:, I'm sorry Janine! That's a typo -- it's supposed to be "are cool." as in, I think those are amazing! :) Seriously, the more I look at those MacKenizie's the more I like them :)

And um, how about some Sidney Paget? He illustrated Sherlock Holmes in the Strand magazine, when they first came out.

http://espadadepau.files.wordpress.c...rand_paget.jpg

http://www.geocities.com/escottish14...tSherlock1.gif

http://www.gfy.ku.dk/~ams/sh/england/houn_big_v.jpg

http://www.ignisart.com/camdenhouse/images/miss-05.jpg

http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb...4-3CF939DB.jpg

Hi andave ya, those are wonderful illustrations of Holmes; they have the flavor of the times, don't they? Do you know what year they were published? I heard of the Strand before. Was that popular in England? Thanks for posting some photos. I will post more soon, too. So happy to see you here!

When I came acorss this I just had to post it. It is from the Browning poem The Laboratory by John Collier

http://www.artmagick.com/images/cont.../collier36.jpg

Dark Muse, I really love that! I am thinking that this woman looks something like
the actress Helena Boheme Carter, but taller, of course. I like the way the textural gray marble matches the patterned brocade silk color in the woman's dress; the soft colors also are interesting. Wonder if John Collier did any other poetry illustrations.

This is the only one that I found. He has a Sleeping Beauty I really like that I posted in the Fairy Tale social group.

Here is some Faust by my old favorite Harry Clarke

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Dark Muse, these are truly bizzarre and interesting. I like that first one - the design is simple extraodinary and I like the graphic quality of the black/white. There are some very cool images in the others - talk about the darkside. These and his other works remind me of the story we read in Chehov - "The Black Monk"....the mood of that story. You seem to be digging up even better examples. I just love all of these. Thanks for posting them. Good finds!

That one near the center -b/w - looks like they are having a snake orgy - that one is quite strange; totally phallic. Virgil should view these - he might like them..haha

I just realised that is a hand (elongated) with fingers around the woman figure...that one is so cool. The more one looks at these the more interesting them become.

Hehe you should have seen some of the ones I did not post. I was afraid of getting censored haha. Some of the others were near pornographic.

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Hehe you should have seen some of the ones I did not post. I was afraid of getting censored haha. Some of the others were near pornographic.

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From viewing that one with the snakes, I can imagine.;)

A collection of fairy poems illustrated by Warwick Goble

http://spiritoftheages.com/WG%20BFP%203.jpg
Kilmeny

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The Ferlie

http://spiritoftheages.com/WG%20BFP%207.jpg
The Kelpie of Corrievreckan

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Goblin Market

http://spiritoftheages.com/WG%20BFP%2010.jpg
La Belle Dame Sans Merci

http://spiritoftheages.com/WG%20BFP%2012.jpg
The Veairires

http://spiritoftheages.com/WG%20BFP%2013.jpg
What Toys Do At Night

http://spiritoftheages.com/WG%20BFP%2014.jpg
The Tree Beggers

http://spiritoftheages.com/WG%20BFP%2015.jpg
The Fairy and His Master

http://spiritoftheages.com/WG%20BFP%2016.jpg
Ariel's Song

http://spiritoftheages.com/WG%20BFP%2022.jpg
Faires on the Sea-shore

http://spiritoftheages.com/WG%20BFP%2023.jpg
Song of Four Fairies

http://spiritoftheages.com/WG%20BFP%2026.jpg
The Sea Fairies

http://spiritoftheages.com/WG%20BFP%2027.jpg
The Fairies Farewell

http://spiritoftheages.com/WG%20BFP%2028.jpg
Lirope the Bright

http://spiritoftheages.com/WG%20BFP%2029.jpg
Queen Mab

I love Goble's work. These are a nice variety of pictures; good examples. I won't be around much today or this evening but will check back later on.

A Christmas Carol

Illustrations by John Leach

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...#39;s_Ball.jpg

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http://charlesdickenspage.com/illust...s_Carol_08.jpg

Dark Muse, these are really nice. I had this same thing in-mind and forgot about it. I think I have some Rackham's of 'The Christmas Carol'...I will check. I love these by John Leach; I never heard of him and it is nice to be introduced to a new artist/illustrator. Cool examples!

Just three from Arthur Rackham from "The Christmas Carol"

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

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http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p...o_Rackham2.jpg

Here are some fun 'Santas' from Norman Rockwell...not exactly illustrating Great Literature...but bending the rules a bit for Christmas...they are illustrations for covers (magazine).

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I like the first one that looks like a Satyr

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I like the first one that looks like a Satyr

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Yeah, isn't that one strange? I like that one too....wish I could find of Rackham's illustrations from "The Christmas Carol". I will look online and see if I can come up with anymore. I recall one other but now I can't seem to locate it in my file.

I never knew there were artworks dedicated to books! (except for frontcovers) Thank you everyone for sharing!