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,