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Freitag, 29. September 2017

Arthur Rackham: Illustrations to The Zankiwank and Blethetwitch


The Zankiwank and the Bletherwitch by S. J. Adair – Fitzgerald with pictures by Arthur Rackham. We think that the pictures are good in this book ; we think also, but with the hesitation which a difficult matter demands, that the text is but poor fun. We say "difficult matter" because there is nothing about which opinions differ so much. What amuses A simply bores B. We can only say that the extravagances of the Zankiwank and his company do not touch our sense of the ridiculous. THE SPECTATOR, January 1897.



 
Frontispiece
 EVERYBODY MADE A RUSH FOR THE TRAIN


PART I
A TRIP TO FABLE LAND

 THE JACKARANDAJAM


 MR SWINGLEBINKS


THEY WERE RUN INTO BY A DEMON ON A BICYCLE


BIRDS , BEASTS AND FISHES WER5E HURRYING BY IN CONFUSING MASSES


THE FROGS...PLAYING "KISS IN THE RING"


THEY WERE GLUED TO THE EARTH


PART II

THE FAIRIE'S FEATHER AND FLOWER LAND

THE ELFIN ORCHESTRA


I HAVE DISPATCHED  THE JACKARANDAJAM AND MR SWINGLEBINKS  IN A FOUR-WHEELED CAB


A COPNIES OF FAIRIES....LEAPT FROM THE PETALS FROM THE FLOWERS


THE SLY JACKDAWS AND THE RAVENS... EVIDENTLY PLOTTING MISCHIEF


ONE OF THE PRETTIEST DANCES YOU EVER SAW


TITANIA ARRIVED ...WITH A FULL TRAIN OF FAIRIES AND ELVES





WILLIE PINCHED HIS EXCEEDINGLY THIN LEGS, MAKING HIM JUMP AS HIGH AS AN APRIL RAINBOW


PEASEBLOSSOM AND MUSTARD SEED



 QUEEN TITANIA AND HER COURT OF FAIRIES WERE EATING PUDDINGS AND PIES


THE TWO CHILDREN TUMBLED OFF NOTHING INTO A VACANT SPACE



"KEEP THE POT A-BOILING", BAWLED THE ZANKIWANK

 SO INTO SHADOWLAND THEY TUMBLED



PART III

A VISIT TO SHADOW LAND


A WHOLE SCHOOL OF CHILDREN FOLLOWING MADLY IN THEIR WAKE


THE GOBLINS STARTED OFF ON HORSEBACK


THE UNFORTUNATE DOLL


THE WINNY WEG WAS DANCING IN A CORNER ALL BY HERSELF

MAUD AND WILLIE WERE RECLINING  PEACEFULLY ON A GOLDEN COUCH WITH SILVER CUSHIONS



A GTAME OF LEAP FROG


 A GREAT RED CAVERN OPENED AND SWALLOWED UP EVERYTHING


PART IV

THE LAND OF TOPSY TURVEY


"NOW THEN, MOVE ON!"


THE WIMBLE AND THE WAMBLE



YORUMGANDER THE YOUNGER ...APPROACHED THEM WITH A CASE OF PENS


 "WHY, HERE HE I"!


 THE ZANKIWANK ARGUING WITH THE CLERK AND THE WEATHER COCK


TIME WAS MEANT FOR SLAVES



CHILDREN WITH  THE ODDEST HEADS  AND FACES EVER SEEN


 IT WAS A SORT OF A SKELETON

 THE GRIFFIN AND THE PHOENIX


THEY SPRANG INTO THE HASH


DR PAMPLETON


NO ONE INDIVIDUAL GOT HIS OWN PROPER LIMBS FASTENED TO HIM




THERE WAS JOHN OPENING THE CARRIAGE DOOR FOR THEM TO GET OUT



Dienstag, 26. September 2017

Pony Tracks written and illustrated by Frederic Remington, 2nd part



 Shooting in the Sierra Madre


 The Indian's story


 The cliff-dwellings

 The portage



Black-Water

 The Fawn

 Breaking a jam


 Hung up


 A Coachero


 The start


 Morning toilet


 Harnessing mules


  A Dakota Chicken-Wagon


 On the edge of a slough


 A conference in the mud


 "Don't shoot!"


 "Mark - left"


 Burgess, nearly forty-five years a scout


 The Bell-Mare over a bad place


 Down the mountain


 Getting grub


 Working up the divide


 Burgess finding a ford


 General Guy V. Henry, Seventh United States Cavalry


 Riding sitting on legs


 "We were now out of the smoke"


 Officer and men - first Cycle Infantry


 The toast: "Merry Christmas!"


 "Do you think this pony is going to buck?"


 Dan and Rocks


 A dangerous place

 "Gone away"


 Timber-topping in the Rockies


The bear at bay


 The finale


The return of the hunters