Mon cabinet de curiosités

ponderful:

Prospero and Ariel by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872-1945)

ecraftic:

Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp’d tow’rs, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.

toelle:

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, illustration by Arthur Rackham (via i n i m i n i)

(via rosemaryandthorn)

oldbookillustrations:

Caliban. [Sings drunkenly]
Farewell, master; farwell, farewell!

Robert Anning Bell, from The tempest : a comedy, by William Shakespeare, London, 1901.

(Source: archive.org)

oldbookillustrations:

Re-enter Ariel, invisible, playing and singing; Ferdinand following.

Robert Anning Bell, from The tempest : a comedy, by William Shakespeare, London, 1901.

(Source: archive.org)

enchantingimagery:

Illustration by Brian Froud for A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Froud did the concept art for the Jim Henson films, The Dark Crystal (1982) and Labyrinth (1986). I will try to post some concept art for those films when I get the chance.

Scan by me from the marvellous book, The Land of Froud (1977).

(via artofnarrative)

Frank Dicksee, Romeo and Juliet, oil on wood, 1876

(via Art Renewal Center :: Frank Dicksee :: Romeo and Juliet)

(Source: lily-ruby)