khushushban:

“Two Deer Were Encountered” - published in 1980 in Moscow, the work of the incredible Russian Illustrator, Gennady Spirin.

Puppet Show

by Pavel Tatarnikov

by Ekaterina Shtanko

from ‘Norwegian Fairytales’

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Let the Masquerade Begin

by Vladimir Stancovic

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when the Moon is Full

by Katy Horan 

acrylic and gouache on wood

Wladislaw Skoczylas
Saint-Christophe
Wood engraving, 1929
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Edmund Bartlomiejczk,

Le joueur de cornemuse

Wood engraving, 1929

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Baba Yaga

by Rima Staines

watercolour 2010

prints available here

elaine4queen:

oldbookillustrations:

The old woman went out to ask the moon the way to Soria Maria’s castle.

Erik Werenskiold, from Fairy tales from the far North, by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, London, 1897.
Via archive.org.

from Tales of the Amur

illustrated by Gennady Pavlishin

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Weles

Stanisław Jakubowski

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Cards

Charles Emile Jacque

Etching 1850

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Illustrations by B Zabirokhin from White Swan - Russian Fairytales

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Erwartungen

(Expectations) 

Etching by Gaelle Lalonde

The Combat; Angel or Devil

Paul Nash

1910 

Pen, ink and wash

This drawing depicts a dramatic nightmare battle between an angel and a devil. The mysteries associated with the night fascinated the British artist Paul Nash (1889-1946). He explored the notion that sometimes only the trees witnessed events that took place after dark.

In an accompanying poem Nash describes this scene.

‘A place of gibbet-shapen trees and black abyss 
Where gaunt hills brooded dark and evil 
Girdled by dense wet woods and rushing streams 
A dread place seen only in dreams 
Of which there is no history but this 
That on yon’ stony tor 
An angel fought a devil.’

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