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Childhood Tales

Here, we have gathered more than 120 images from classic tales from Childhood.

 

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (and the French-language version, Alice au pays

des merveilles), Hawthorne's Wonder Book, Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen (with variants by a number of

artists), Hansel and Gretel: And Other Stories by the Brothers Grimm, Oriental tales of Aladdin and the Arabian

Nights (with contributions in various styles), Cinderella, Blue Beard and Mary Crary's The Daughters of the Stars.

 

You will see precious little jewels, whimsy, odd and powerful representations among the images from Golden Age

artists including Arthur Rackham, Kay Nielsen, Thomas Mackenzie, Edmund Dulac, Adrienne Ségur, Maxfield Parrish,

Sulamith Wülfing and Harry Clarke.

 

The following images are available for purchase in 10 x 8" format for US$25 (unmatted). To purchase, simply

click on the "Add to Cart" button and you'll be taken through to our Shopping Cart secured through PayPal.

Multiple purchases will be accommodated by that feature and shipping to any destination in the world is

accommodated by our flat-rate fee of US$20 for every US$200 worth of purchases.

 

Each image may be reproduced in a variety of sizes (from 6 x 4" through to 30 x 20" in some cases). Pricing for

different sizes is outlined on the Spirit of the Ages Range page. Should you have some specific needs outside

those offered on this page, please make contact by email (ThePeople@SpiritoftheAges.com) and we will

happily discuss options, pricing and purchase. Purchase for special orders can be arranged through PayPal.

 

 

 

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

(Arthur Rackham)

 

Peter screamed out "Do it again!" and with

great good-nature they did it several times

 


Code: AR PPKIG 16 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

(Arthur Rackham)

 

A hundred flew off with the string, and Peter clung to the tail

 


Code: AR PPKIG 17 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

(Arthur Rackham)

 

After this the birds said that they would help

him no more in his mad enterprise

 


Code: AR PPKIG 18 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

(Arthur Rackham)

 

When you meet grown-up people in the Gardens

who puff and blow as if they thought

themselves bigger than they are

 


Code: AR PPKIG 21 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

(Arthur Rackham)

 

He passed under the bridge and came

within full sight of the delectable Gardens

 


Code: AR PPKIG 22 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

(Arthur Rackham)

 

Peter Pan is the fairies' orchestra

 


Code: AR PPKIG 33 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens

(Arthur Rackham)

 

They all tickled him on the shoulder

 


Code: AR PPKIG 34 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

(Arthur Rackham)

 

Alice

 


Code: AR AAW 1 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

(Arthur Rackham)

 

The Pool of Tears

 


Code: AR AAW 2 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

(Arthur Rackham)

 

They all crowded round it panting

and asking, "But who has won?"

 


Code: AR AAW 3 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

(Arthur Rackham)

 

"Why, Mary Ann, what are you

doing out here?"

 


Code: AR AAW 4 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

(Arthur Rackham)

 

Advice from a Caterpillar

 


Code: AR AAW 5 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

(Arthur Rackham)

 

It grunted again so violently that

she looked down into its face

in some alarm

 


Code: AR AAW 7 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

(Arthur Rackham)

 

A Mad Tea Party

 


Code: AR AAW 8 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

(Arthur Rackham)

 

The Queen turned angrily away from

him and said to the Knave, "Turn

him over"

 


Code: AR AAW 9 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

(Arthur Rackham)

 

The Queen never left off quarrelling

with the other players, and shouting

"Off with his head!" or

"Off with her head!"

 


Code: AR AAW 10 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

(Arthur Rackham)

 

The Mock Turtle drew a long breath

and said, "That's very curious"

 


Code: AR AAW 11 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

(Arthur Rackham)

 

Who stole the tarts?

 


Code: AR AAW 12 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

(Arthur Rackham)

 

At this the whole pack rose up into

the air, and came flying down

upon her

 


Code: AR AAW 13 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Hawthorne's Wonder Book

(Arthur Rackham)

 

It struck Midas as rather inconvenient

 


Code: AR HWB 4 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Hawthorne's Wonder Book

(Arthur Rackham)

 

He took great pains in going from bush to bush

until every individual flower and bud and even

the worms at the heart of some of them were

changed gold

 


Code: AR HWB 5 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Hawthorne's Wonder Book

(Arthur Rackham)

 

Little Marygold was a human child no longer,

but a golden statue!

 


Code: AR HWB 6 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Hawthorne's Wonder Book

(Arthur Rackham)

 

Hercules gave a great shrug of his shoulders.

It being now twilight, you might have seen

two or three stars tumble out of their places

 


Code: AR HWB 13 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen

(Kay Nielsen)

 

The Tinder Box

In the night the dog came again, took the

princess on his back and ran with her

to the soldier

 


Code: KN FTHA 1 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen

(Kay Nielsen)

 

The Real Princess

"Oh, very badly indeed!" she replied.

"I have scarcely closed my eyes the

whole night through. I do not know

what was in my bed"

 


Code: KN FTHA 2 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen

(Kay Nielsen)

 

The Hardy Tin Soldier

The draught of air caught the dancer,

and she flew like a sylph just into the

stove to the tin soldier

 


Code: KN FTHA 3 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen

(Kay Nielsen)

 

The Flying Trunk

She is waiting still

 


Code: KN FTHA 4 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen

(Kay Nielsen)

 

Ole Luk-Oie

That was a pleasure voyage. Sometimes

the forest was thick and dark, sometimes

like a glorious garden full of

sunlight and flowers

 


Code: KN FTHA 5 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen

(Kay Nielsen)

 

The Swineherd

And then he went into his kingdom

and shut the door in her face, and

put a bar on. So now she might

stand outside and sing - "Oh, my

darling Augustine, All is lost,

all is lost"

 


Code: KN FTHA 6 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen

(Kay Nielsen)

 

The Nightingale

And when I get back and am tired,

and rest in the wood, then I hear

the Nightingale sing

 


Code: KN FTHA 7 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen

(Kay Nielsen)

 

The Snow Queen

A few persons even got a fragment of the

mirror into their hearts, and that

was terrible indeed, for such a heart

became a block of ice

 


Code: KN FTHA 8 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen

(Kay Nielsen)

 

The Snow Queen

But Gerda and Kay went hand in hand,

and as they went it became beautiful

Spring, with green and wild flowers

 


Code: KN FTHA 9 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen

(Kay Nielsen)

 

The Shepherdess and the

Chimney-Sweeper

"We'll mount so high that they can't catch

us, and quite at the top there's a hole

that leads out into the wide world."

 


Code: KN FTHA 10 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen

(Kay Nielsen)

 

The Elder Tree Mother

And in the midst of the tree sat an old,

pleasant-looking woman in a strange

dress

 


Code: KN FTHA 11 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Fairy Tales by Hans Andersen

(Kay Nielsen)

 

The Story of a Mother

And Death went away with her child into
the unknown land

 


Code: KN FTHA 12 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Hansel and Gretel: And Other

Stories by the Brothers Grimm

(Kay Nielsen)

 

Snowdrop

 


Code: KN HGOTBG 1 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Hansel and Gretel: And Other

Stories by the Brothers Grimm

(Kay Nielsen)

 

Hansel and Gretel

 


Code: KN HGOTBG 2 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Hansel and Gretel: And Other

Stories by the Brothers Grimm

(Kay Nielsen)

 

Cherry; or, The Frog Bride

 


Code: KN HGOTBG 3 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Hansel and Gretel: And Other

Stories by the Brothers Grimm

(Kay Nielsen)

 

The Fisherman and His Wife

 


Code: KN HGOTBG 4 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Hansel and Gretel: And Other

Stories by the Brothers Grimm

(Kay Nielsen)

 

Rosebud

 


Code: KN HGOTBG 5 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Hansel and Gretel: And Other

Stories by the Brothers Grimm

(Kay Nielsen)

 

The Goose Girl

 


Code: KN HGOTBG 6 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Hansel and Gretel: And Other

Stories by the Brothers Grimm

(Kay Nielsen)

 

Catskin

 


Code: KN HGOTBG 7 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Hansel and Gretel: And Other

Stories by the Brothers Grimm

(Kay Nielsen)

 

Rumplestiltskin

 


Code: KN HGOTBG 8 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Hansel and Gretel: And Other

Stories by the Brothers Grimm

(Kay Nielsen)

 

The Valiant Little Tailor

 


Code: KN HGOTBG 9 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Hansel and Gretel: And Other

Stories by the Brothers Grimm

(Kay Nielsen)

 

The Six Swans

 


Code: KN HGOTBG 10 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Hansel and Gretel: And Other

Stories by the Brothers Grimm

(Kay Nielsen)

 

The Juniper Tree

 


Code: KN HGOTBG 11 (10 x 8)
Price: US$25.00

Hansel and Gretel: And Other

Stories by the Brothers Grimm

(Kay Nielsen)