YOUR FAVOURITE FAIRY TALE ILLUSTRATIONS

“In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected."
Charles Dickens

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
Albert Einstein

“Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children – as long as you make them laugh as well.”
Roald Dahl

“Fear isn’t so difficult to understand. After all, weren’t we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It’s just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual.”
Alfred Hitchcock

I’ll start with RED RIDING HOOD

Arthur Rackham

Ethel Franklin Betts

Gustave Dore

Gustaf Tenggren

Arpad Schmidhammer

Elizabeth Orton Jones

Warwick Goble

Lizbeth Zwerger

John Everett Millais

Jilian Tamaki

Richard Hermann Eschke

Cory Godbey

oh this is wonderful. i love rackham’s work. and dore too

i don’t know the artists, they’re just random ones i found. the first one is rackham. to me there was always something creepy about sleeping beauty. found a dore to add, too!

Sir Edward Burne-Jones

beautiful, thank you!! xD

Gustave Dore

arthur rackham

walter crane. good one tommy

hermann vogel

Thanks. I love Dore

edit – what the shit

heh. that happened to me too! that stupid site won’t let u jack their stuff

my 3rd sleeping beauty above is a nielsen, a bad washed out copy that i now regret so this is to make up

and here’s his terrific rapunzel

sort of japanese/viking stuff. nielsen worked for disney for awhile including on the bald mtn sequence in fantasia

Kay Nielsen’s Hansel and Gretel:

Jan Pienkowski’s Fairy Tale Library

He uses water marbling, silhouettes, and hand lettering.

You can find more here.

banksy (w/michael jackson as the witch)

carl offterdinger

donglu yu

Lorenzo Mattotti
“Six Scenes from Hansel and Gretel”
India ink; six panels

Alexei Orleansky

Martinus—Those are amazing images. I must seek that out.

These are all amazing images, actually—I love this thread.

Allow me to include one that isn’t a classical fairy tale, but I think fits (and is something I love for very personal reasons).

Also, from Ireland:

Sorry. Artsy Crafty got me…

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Water Babies

Incredible.

wow, beautiful! and love the russian illustrations, girlfriend

Shit. I’m going to moderate my previous posts so they don’t take up so much wasted space. I’ll figure out another way to post them.

anne anderson

beauty and the beast

the frog prince

rumpelstiltskin

little mermaid