Arthur Rackham’s Midsummer Night’s Dream
Jun 20, 2009
Something for the Summer Solstice, the whole of Arthur Rackham’s Shakespeare at the Internet Archive. Rackham’s paintings are classics of the period but for me William Heath Robinson’s black and white drawings are the superior renderings of this story. Happily you can see that book as well.
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#1 posted by charity
Jun 21st, 2009
William Heath Robinson illos are tremendous, I hadn’t seen them before, thanks for posting John!
#2 posted by John
Jun 21st, 2009
Hi Charity, I love Heath Robinson’s early work. Always bewilders me that he’s known and remembered mainly for his comic inventions. Those get reprinted far more often than his book illustrations.