AUSTRALIAN FAIRY TALES BY HUME COOK WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY CHRISTIAN YANDELL

 

Christian Marjory Emily Carlyle Waller (Yandell) (2 August 1894 - 25 May 1954) was an Australian printmaker, illustrator, muralist and stained-glass artist. At 15 she moved to Melbourne, where she studied at the National Gallery School. In 1915 she married fellow-student Mervyn Napier Waller.

Christian Waller was Australia's only professional woman stained-glass artist until the craft revival of the 1970s and was much sought-after as an illustrator and stained-glass artist; after the War, she had a five-year waiting list and more commissions than she could execute. Her glass adorns over 20 churches in Victoria and New South Wales. WIKIPEDIA

 

He leaped into his flying carriage and was off to save the Princess from an awful fate.

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 THE MAGIC WELL

 

“To his intense astonishment it came easily out of the ground ."

 

 

 

The Shower Fairies arrived, and, with their pellet-like raindrops beat the sand particles down.

THE FAIRY CITY

Instantly the fountain began to play.

To see the city at its best, it must be viewed at night.

THE PRINCE’S PALACE

He vowed to himself that never in all his life had he seen anyone so gloriously beautiful and charming.

THE PRINCE’S MARRIAGE

They suddenly rushed from their hiding places and started pushing and dragging her over the sandy desert.

Together they mounted the steps and stood before the 'Official Recorder'.

THE SKYLARK’S STORY

Touch tells a story.

THE RAINDROP’S STORY

CLOVER PERFUME’S STORY

King Acacia placed upon his head a splendid crown.

MUSIC’S STORY

They, the children of the sky.....
To the moon—their mother—came one happy summer night.

THE MOON’S GARDEN PARTY

The Mower and his lady met the Queen.

 The illustrations in Australian Fairy Tales are some of her finest, and more refined then those seen in the 1926 publication The Adventurous Elves: An Authoratative Fairy Story (Patten 1926). Australian Fairy Tales reproduces nineteen of Yandell's works, based on original drawings in black ink and watercolours.