rackham | midsummer nights dream

Arthur Rackham is widely regarded as one of the leading illustrators from the 'Golden Age' of British book illustration (from 1890 until the end of the First World War) when the public relised in depiction of fantasy and fairies.

During the early 1900s the emergence of colour 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.

Here are some of my favourite of his pictures from A Midsummer Night’s Dream