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The Fantastic Line Art of Arthur Rackham
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Arthur Rackham is widely regarded as one of the leading illustrators from the golden age of British book illustration, which encompassed the years 1890 until the end of World War I. The acclaim for the artist's wealth of color illustrations has overshadowed the merit of his first-rate ink work, a genre richly deserving of individual attention. This original volume, the first available collection of Rackham's line art, features images from throughout his career, including illustrations for Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and some rare periodical work.
In addition, this compilation presents two seldom-seen magazine features on the artist: "Arthur Rackham: The Wizard at Home," a 1905 article from The International Studio, and "Arthur Rackham: A Painter of Fantasies," a 1914 article from St. Nicholas Magazine. These articles, not reprinted in over a century, contain pictures of Rackham's studio and residence as well as some stories of his own commentary. Together with scores of strange and wonderful illustrations, they provide fresh insights into the work of the artist known as "the Beloved Enchanter."
In addition, this compilation presents two seldom-seen magazine features on the artist: "Arthur Rackham: The Wizard at Home," a 1905 article from The International Studio, and "Arthur Rackham: A Painter of Fantasies," a 1914 article from St. Nicholas Magazine. These articles, not reprinted in over a century, contain pictures of Rackham's studio and residence as well as some stories of his own commentary. Together with scores of strange and wonderful illustrations, they provide fresh insights into the work of the artist known as "the Beloved Enchanter."
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The Fantastic Line Art of Arthur Rackham - Arthur Rackham
The Fantastic Line Art of
Arthur Rackham
Instantly they lay still, all turned into stone.
LITTLE BROTHER AND LITTLE SISTER, 1917
The Fantastic Line Art of
Arthur Rackham
Selected and Edited by Jeff A. Menges
Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, New York
Copyright
Copyright © 2017 by Dover Publications, Inc.
Text copyright © 2017 by Jeff A. Menges
All rights reserved.
Bibliographical Note
This Dover edition, first published in 2017, is an original compilation of Arthur Rackham illustrations reprinted from various sources.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Rackham, Arthur, 1867–1939, artist. | Menges, Jeff A., editor.
Title: The fantastic line art of Arthur Rackham / Arthur Rackham ; selected and edited by Jeff A. Menges.
Description: Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, Inc., 2017.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017038331| ISBN 9780486814223 (paperback) | ISBN
048681422X
Subjects: LCSH: Rackham, Arthur, 1867–1939—Themes, motives.
Classification: LCC NC978.5.R32 A4 2017 | DDC 741.942—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017038331
Manufactured in the United States by LSC Communications
81422X01 2017
www.doverpublications.com
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION by Jeff A. Menges
THE ARTICLES
Arthur Rackham: A Painter of Fantasies, A. L. Baldry
The International Studio
London, April 1905
Arthur Rackham: The Wizard at Home, Eleanor Farjeon
St. Nicholas Magazine
London, March 1914
THE IMAGES
The Ingoldsby Legends
Thomas Ingoldsby
George Bell & Sons, London, 1898
Gulliver’s Travels into Several
Remote Nations of the World
Jonathan Swift
J. M. Dent & Co, New York, 1900
Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Freemantle & Co., London, 1900
Rip Van Winkle
Washington Irving
Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, 1905
The Land of Enchantment
Jeanie Lang (ed.)
Cassell & Co., London, 1907
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
William Shakespeare
William Heinemann, London, 1908
Undine
Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué
William Heinemann, London, 1909
The Rainbow Book
Mabel Henriette Spielmann
Chatto and Windus, London, 1909
The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie
Richard Wagner
William Heinemann, London, 1910
Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods
Richard Wagner
William Heinemann, London, 1911
Aesop’s Fables
Translated by V. S. Vernon Jones
Introduction by G. K. Chesterton
William Heinemann, London, 1912
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
J. M. Barrie
Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1912
Arthur Rackham’s Book of Pictures
Arthur Rackham
William Heinemann, London, 1913
A Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens
William Heinemann, London, 1915
Little Brother and Little Sister
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Constable & Co., New York, 1917
The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
Sir Thomas Malory
Macmillan & Co., London & New York, 1917
English Fairy Tales
Flora Annie Steel
Macmillan & Co., London & New York, 1918
The Springtide of Life: Poems of Childhood
Algernon Charles Swinburne
William Heinemann, London, 1918
Snowdrop and Other Tales
Jacob and
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