The Fantastic Line Art of Arthur Rackham

By Arthur Rackham and Jeff A. Menges

Arthur Rackham is widely regarded as one of the leading illustrators from the golden age of British book illustration, which encompassed the years 1890 until the end of World War I. The acclaim for the artist's wealth of color illustrations has overshadowed the merit of his first-rate ink work, a genre richly deserving of individual attention. This original volume, the first available collection of Rackham's line art, features images from throughout his career, including illustrations for Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and some rare periodical work.
In addition, this compilation presents two seldom-seen magazine features on the artist: "Arthur Rackham: The Wizard at Home," a 1905 article from The International Studio, and "Arthur Rackham: A Painter of Fantasies," a 1914 article from St. Nicholas Magazine. These articles, not reprinted in over a century, contain pictures of Rackham's studio and residence as well as some stories of his own commentary. Together with scores of strange and wonderful illustrations, they provide fresh insights into the work of the artist known as "the Beloved Enchanter."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Release date: Oct 26, 2017
• ISBN: 9780486825960

Arthur Rackham

Arthur Rackham (1867–1939) was a British illustrator.

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The Fantastic Line Art of

Arthur Rackham

Instantly they lay still, all turned into stone.

LITTLE BROTHER AND LITTLE SISTER, 1917

The Fantastic Line Art of

Arthur Rackham

Selected and Edited by Jeff A. Menges

Dover Publications, Inc., Mineola, New York

Copyright

Copyright © 2017 by Dover Publications, Inc.

Text copyright © 2017 by Jeff A. Menges

All rights reserved.

Bibliographical Note

This Dover edition, first published in 2017, is an original compilation of Arthur Rackham illustrations reprinted from various sources.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Rackham, Arthur, 1867–1939, artist. | Menges, Jeff A., editor.

Title: The fantastic line art of Arthur Rackham / Arthur Rackham ; selected and edited by Jeff A. Menges.

Description: Mineola, New York : Dover Publications, Inc., 2017.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017038331| ISBN 9780486814223 (paperback) | ISBN

048681422X

Subjects: LCSH: Rackham, Arthur, 1867–1939—Themes, motives.

Classification: LCC NC978.5.R32 A4 2017 | DDC 741.942—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017038331

Manufactured in the United States by LSC Communications

81422X01 2017

www.doverpublications.com

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION by Jeff A. Menges

THE ARTICLES

Arthur Rackham: A Painter of Fantasies, A. L. Baldry

The International Studio

London, April 1905

Arthur Rackham: The Wizard at Home, Eleanor Farjeon

St. Nicholas Magazine

London, March 1914

THE IMAGES

The Ingoldsby Legends

Thomas Ingoldsby

George Bell & Sons, London, 1898

Gulliver’s Travels into Several

Remote Nations of the World

Jonathan Swift

J. M. Dent & Co, New York, 1900

Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

Freemantle & Co., London, 1900

Rip Van Winkle

Washington Irving

Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, 1905

The Land of Enchantment

Jeanie Lang (ed.)

Cassell & Co., London, 1907

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

William Shakespeare

William Heinemann, London, 1908

Undine

Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué

William Heinemann, London, 1909

The Rainbow Book

Mabel Henriette Spielmann

Chatto and Windus, London, 1909

The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie

Richard Wagner

William Heinemann, London, 1910

Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods

Richard Wagner

William Heinemann, London, 1911

Aesop’s Fables

Translated by V. S. Vernon Jones

Introduction by G. K. Chesterton

William Heinemann, London, 1912

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

J. M. Barrie

Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1912

Arthur Rackham’s Book of Pictures

Arthur Rackham

William Heinemann, London, 1913

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens

William Heinemann, London, 1915

Little Brother and Little Sister

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm

Constable & Co., New York, 1917

The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table

Sir Thomas Malory

Macmillan & Co., London & New York, 1917

English Fairy Tales

Flora Annie Steel

Macmillan & Co., London & New York, 1918

The Springtide of Life: Poems of Childhood

Algernon Charles Swinburne

William Heinemann, London, 1918

Snowdrop and Other Tales

Jacob and