Arthur Rackham was an illustrator and watercolorist. While on the staff of "The
Westminster Budget" he began to concentrate on the illustration of books and particularly
those of a mystical, magic or legendary background. He soon established himself as
one of the foremost Edwardian illustrators and was triumphant in the early 1900’s when
color printing first enabled him to use subtle tints and muted tones to represent age and
timelessness. Rackham’s imaginative eye saw all forms with the eyes of childhood and
created a world that was half reassuring and half frightening. His sources were
primarily Victorian and among them are evidently the works of Cruickshank and
Beardsley, but also the prints of Durer and Altdorfer.
fairay tales of the brothers grimm 1900
rip van winkle 1905, peter pan in kensington gardens 1906,
alice's adventures in wonderland 1907,
