Words and Images to Tell a Story

Harold Gaze ~ Water Fairy ~ via

Harold Gaze ~ Water Fairy ~ Illustration for a Poem of Love ~ via

Harold Gaze ~ Ocean Fairy ~ 1919 ~ via

Harold Gaze ~ Mermaid and Sea Cherubs ~ via

Harold Gaze ~ Mermaid, Sea Imps & Ocean Baby ~ via

Harold Gaze ~ Mermaid in a Grotto ~ via

Flora White ~ Merfolk ~ 1913 ~ via

Emilio Freixas - “El sueño de una noche de verano”
crystilogic:

‘Maggie meets the fairies in the wood’, illustration by Arthur Hughes from Speaking Likenesses by Christina Rossetti (1874). The sense of focus is pretty amazing.
Nellie Syrett ~ The Other Side of the Sun ~ 1900
Frontispiece ~ The Other Side of the Sun: Fairy Stories by Evelyn Sharp
Nellie Syrett ~ The Other Side of the Sun ~ 1900
Somebody Else’s Prince ~ The Garden
Nellie Syrett ~ The Other Side of the Sun ~ 1900
Somebody Else’s Prince ~ The Stairs