Once upon a time

Krista TIppet's interview, The Great Cauldron of Story, with Harvard's own Maria Tatar (professor of Germanic Language & Lit whose blog, "Breezes from Wonderland" is here) explored the idea of fairy tales and how they "don't only belong to the domain of childhood. Their overt themes are threaded throughout" popular culture. The program had several points of connection with things I've been doing recently, like reading a kind of fairy tale, Bram Stoker's Dracula, and reminded me that one of our calendars this year feature artwork by Arthur Rackham. A recent Sunday Times featured an article about London's hidden crooks & nannies, and mentioned Victorian artist, Frederic, Lord Leighton's house museum. If you don't want to listen to the podcast (see the Cauldron link above) the transcript of the interview is here, and I'm going to include one of his drawings of Pan, and a couple of favorites from the page on Rackham. Enjoy.

Study for an Illustration for 'A Musical Instrument': '
The Great God Pan', Composition

Illustration to the ballad Young Beckie
from "Some British Ballads"

"How at the Castle of Corbin a Maiden Bare in the
Sangreal and Foretold the Achievements of Galahad",
from The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table,
by Alfred W Pollard, 1917