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1894 oil painting titled My Next-Door Neighbour by Edmund Blair Leighton. In the foreground stands a young woman in a long, patterned pink-and-white striped overdress over a textured gold skirt with ruffled trim. She wears a wide-brimmed straw hat and a white collar wrapping around her shoulders. She holds a small black dog in her right arm while holding onto a decorative wrought-iron handrail with her left. Just behind her, a young man is stepping out of a doorway or descending the adjacent stairs. He is dressed in a dark coat, brown trousers, riding boots with spurs, and a wide-brimmed black hat. He leans forward with a cane in hand, casting a look toward the woman. This takes place of the stone steps of two townhouses. The classic paneled wooden doors, fluted columns, and arched transom window over the doorway frame the scene.
Painting by William Powell Frith (1819–1909). Title: Poverty and Wealth. It depicts wealthy people sitting in a luxurious carriage on one side of the painting, and poor people and (barefoot) street children on the other side.
Cover of Vanity Fair
Riverbank scene with ratty and mole, illustration
Robin perched on catkinned branch above primroses on mossy grass with violets, painting.
Artwork depicting two Elven figures from the Vanyar, a clan of Elves from J.R.R. Tolkien's legendarium. A figure stands on the left, clad in light-colored robes and a helmet. This figure holds a spear and a shield. A second figure on the right, also in flowing robes, holds a sheathed sword. Both figures have long, flowing hair which. Between the two figures is a stylized, intertwined tree motif. The tree's roots extend downwards into a blue, wave-like pattern. The figures and the tree are framed within a large circular border featuring intricate, swirling knotwork designs.
Artwork by Alan Lee. Depicting Bilbo's hobbit hole from up in the sky.
King’s row with the executioner, cat in sky, illustration.
Painting of lush meadow filled with wildflowers and butterflies, a scythe lies on the ground.
Painting of tall grasses, wildflowers, pods and leaves. There are numerous species of butterflies, including the Monarch and Yellow Tiger Swallowtail, as well as smaller blue and white butterflies.
The painting illustrates part of Keats' poem, where a beautiful but merciless "faery's child" seduces a knight, leading to his eventual abandonment and metaphorical or literal death. She wears a dress of poppies and kneels in a field of poppies, in the foreground lies the knight in his armour. Behind her there is a body of water abs hills.
From WikimediaCommons: Albert Maignan’s painting of “Green Muse” (1895) shows a poet succumbing to the green fairy. Musée de Picardie, Amiens.
The Fairy Tree, Richard Doyle, c.1865. A detailed watercolor and ink painting which features an intricate, sprawling tree with bare branches populated by over 200 fairies, elves, and mythical creatures. There is the Fairy King who is situated on a central branch, he is depicted having his long moustaches combed by several female fairies. In the lower-left corner, a human boy gazes up at the tree in wonder. Each branch serves as a stage for miniature dramas, including processions, revelers climbing boughs like stairways, and various creatures interacting.
Portrait of Dorian Gray in increasing state of decay, he stands in front of a red upholstered chair, there are two red curtains drawn on either side with a gilt frame, illustration.
Art by Léon Spilliaert. Description from Wikimedia Commons: Faun by Moonlight" (1900); washed India ink, brush, black chalk, and colored pencil on paper (49 x 63 cm) by the Belgian painter Léon Spilliaert (1881–1946); private collection.
Torajirō Kojima (1881-1925), Woman Reading in wicker chair with shelves of books behind and a blue wall, she is wearing a mustard skirt, white shirt with blue tie and collar, painting.
Queen Elizabeth I by Unknown English artist oil on panel, circa 1600 ‘This painting is known as 'The Coronation portrait', and shows the Queen crowned, wearing the cloth of gold that she wore at her coronation on 15 January 1559, previously worn by Mary I. She holds the orb and sceptre, symbols of her authority. The portrait appears to have been painted in about 1600, and is probably a copy of a lost original from circa 1559.’ ~ description from National Portrait Gallery.
Portrait of Richard II.
Self portrait of Diego Velázquez in black with white collar. He has dark hair with tufts that come out at each side, an upturned moustache and goatee type beard. Cream background, painting.
Persian miniature of Woman with Daf in Qajar Iran, 19th century Lady with Tambourine
Painting title: Large Lion. Imho, this lion looks a bit 'tender like the evening star' of Rumi's poem. Description from WikimediaCommons: "Large Lion" shows a monumental lion staring directly at the viewer. Barye places the animal against an expansive landscape and an almost surreal orange sunset.
Painting of a pomegranate cut in half with fallen seeds, brown background.
🖼️ Edward Robert Hughes - Midsummer Eve 1908. Fairies dance in circle around woman in woodland, flute beneath her arm, flowers in her hair, golden gown, painting.
Painting of a woman with a white bird. She's standing in front of a river in medievalish clothes and staring at something over there. Cloudy, dark sky.
Artwork by George William Russell. Deirdre at her Dun. She wears a white dress and stares at the dark night sky.
DENG Yingyu 鄧盈玉, 2006. Three wild geese in flight over trees made up of fallen leaves.
Art by Joseph Severn. Portrait of Keats, listening to a nightingale on Hampstead Heath.
C17th illustration of crow
detail of a painting. Fairies in a bird's nest.
Art by Yevgeny Charushin. Illustration of a crocodile.
Painting of a fair-haired woman with her eyes looking down, holding a small bowl overflowing with deep purple violets. She is seated in an ornate, dark wooden chair and wears a dark green dress with voluminous, pale blue and yellow patterned sleeves. A few loose violets are scattered on her lap and float in the background, she is set against a brown background.
Painting by Helen Allingham A young girl in a white dress wearing a black hat gathering flowers. Red, green purple, pink There's a rose bush behind her.
Painting of a wildflower meadow. Trees in the far distance
A woodcut by Bold to illustrate Walter de la Mare's Stuff and Nonsense, and So On, 1927. Illustration of a little devil crouched on a leafy branch in a tree.
Two swans on river in evening. Snowy banks. Illustration.
A woodcut by Bold to illustrate Walter de la Mare's Stuff and Nonsense, and So On, 1927. A woman holds a candle as she stands at the top of some stairs, a large, dark figure can be seen to one side.
🖼️ Benjamin Haughton Painting of cemetery with gravestones, trees and buildings on the background.
Illustration of Steerpike surveying Gormenghast.
Woodblock depicting a canal scene in Bruges.
Painting of Lansdown Crescent, Bath, white dog, black cat in foreground, cart with milk vat on it and woman in apron under street lamp, tree to one side, blue and cloudy sky. Not entirely sure painting is actually Sickert - art site says ‘in style of’, painting in Glasgow Museum.
Illustration of Dorothy talking to a frightened and presumably ashamed lion on the yellow brick road, toto looks on, the scarecrow is floundering to one side and the tin man sits in the grass with a woodland in the background. Underneath the illustration is a quote, ‘You ought to be ashamed of yourself!’ Which isn’t very nice!
Black/white illustration of six tuxedo cats dancing. Full moon.
‘O wombat, agile, joyful, how have you grown, furry and round! Ah do not flee like a vagabond, do not vanish, burrowing through the world: it's really the weight of a hemisphere, not a light burden.’ ~ Christina Rossetti Illustration of wombat at top.
🖼Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth, John Singer Sargent, 1889. Painting of Ellen Terry in costume of blue, emerald and gold, she is holding a crown above her head. She has long red braided hair.
Artwork of several lions in several positions.
Illustration for The Premature Burial by Harry Clarke, 1919. Shows a person waking up inside a coffin buried underground in cross-section of earth from surface vegetation down through the roots to the coffin.
Woman in red gown sitting and reading a sonnet next to a man bent over beside here. She holds her hand to her mouth. They sit beneath a tree on a stony, grassy hillside in the sunshine. Painting.
Painting title: The Death of Orpheus. The severed head of Orpheus with his lyre.
Painting; Lion and the Fly - a very angry lion irritated by a fly under a rocky outcrop and foliage. 🖼️ Jean-Baptiste Oudry, 1732.
Painting of nightingale singing in woodland foliage and blossom, sky in background, C19th.
Painting. Title: The Day Dream. A woman in a green dress sits in a forest. Book and rose in her lap.
🖼️ View of the Rax, Koloman Moser 1907. Painting of fir forest with mountains and sky in distance.
Painting of ghostly figure in musty, murky forest scene.
Painting title: The Phantom Hunter. A hunter lies in the snow and encounters a ghostly figure.
Book cover for The Empty House by Algernon Blackwood, Green cover with illustration of house with broken windows, to let sign, starry night sky and a ghostly figure.
Bears playing in forest, painting.
Painting of a puppy and a frog in the grass.
Painting title: A Distinguished Member of the Humane Society. Painting of a dog. Birds and sea in the far background.
Detail from Landseer’s Man Proposes, God Disposes, 1864. A dark scene of one of two polar bears in the remains of the Franklin expedition. Arctic scene of fallen mast with ice and polar bear with a rib in his mouth. Painting. 
Bustopher Jones seated at a linen covered table with knife and fork in hand being served by a waiter appraising sign a tray of food, behind him is a column with a cat statue on top. Illustration.