Swedish fairytale art

Mushroom Children Harvest Mushrooms Artist: Elsa Beskow From the book Children of the Forest

This is the first in a series of posts having a good look at some of our favourite authors and illustrators here at Dragonfly. Of course Elsa Beskow was always going to be first. Elsa is often called the Scandanavian ‘Beatrix Potter’ and her books feature heavily on our shelves and those of Waldorf kindergartens and cl

Garden of the Far East ~ The Seagulls Garden ~ Gardeners Dream

John Bauer

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Kochergin, Nikolai (b,1897)- Ruslan & Lyudmila- 'Kalevala'

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Eleanor Vere Boyle - Art Gallery of Complete Illustrations from the First Edition of the book Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales, published in 1872.

Larson Carl Winter Time

John Bauer [Swedish painter and illustrator, 1882-1918] 19th Century Goauche on paper Sold at Sotheby's: www.sothebys.com/en/catalogues/ecatalogue.html/2008/19th-... ____ Full digital compilation and enhancement by plumleaves.

One of hundreds of thousands of free digital items from The New York Public Library.

"Polish Fairy Tales" Illustrated by my great-grandmother.

Identifier: fairytalesofbrot00grim Title: The fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm Year: 1916 (1910s) Authors: Grimm, Jacob, 1785-1863 Grimm, Wilhelm, 1786-1859 Rackham, Arthur, 1867-1939, ill Subjects: Fairy tales Folklore -- Germany Publisher: New York : Doubleday, Page Contributing Library: New York Public Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see…