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Arthur Rackham, His Life and Work (page 2/2)

[picture: The giants tore up trees]

The giants tore up trees

This painting was for The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (1906). Two giants persenting as male, beardless, dressed in animal skins, barefoot, are each wielding a tree, roots and all, as a weapon, in this watercolour picture of ochre browns. It was facing page 96 in the book of [...] [more...] [$]

[picture: Dark brown fantasy watercolour border]

Dark brown fantasy watercolour border

This border of symbols, grapes, eyes, and dark daisies, was painted by Arthur Rackham to surround the battle of giants. [more...] [$]

[picture: Adrift from The Snow Queen]

Adrift from The Snow Queen

A watercolour painting of a helpless little girl adrift in a rowing boat without oars, on the wrong side of the river from a distant village with a castle. [more...] [$]

[picture: initial letter R with small girl]

initial letter R with small girl

An inhabited initial letter “R” drawn for Mother Goose in 1913. [more...] [$]


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