It was already in the youth of the Englishman Arthur Rackham that he would one day become a great artist. But Rackham, born in London, was completely inspired to become an artist when, at the age of only 17, he made a journey to faraway Australia. He began to capture everything on his journey in drawings and watercolours. This irrepressible passion for art later made him an important illustrator of our time.
As was the case with many artists, the Rackham family was also against the artistic ambitions of the young son. Against his father's will, the gentle rebel enrolled at the Lambeth School of Art. During the day, he worked in an office in order to avoid straining his relationship with his family. He worked tirelessly on his drawings after hours. He also worked as an illustrator for newspapers, sometimes for Westminster Budget Newspaper. In his free artistic work Rackham was mainly interested in book illustrations. Here he could give free rein to his creativity.
Rackham's entry into book illustration began with a travel guide entitled To the Other Side: a guide to Canada and the United States. It was the first book he illustrated that was published. He also breathed life into the famous fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm with his drawings. Rackham's watercolors for Lewis Carroll's famous story of Alice in Wonderland were also a great success and left a lasting impression on the childhood of many generations. Illustration for fairy tales, narratives and fantasy became Rackham's beloved genre.
Its drawing style is reminiscent of Aubrey Beardsley, but is still unique and outstandingly different. His pictures are bursting with fantasy, ingenuity and attention to detail. In 1905 he established himself as the leading decorative illustrator for the Edwardian period around 1800 with his version of the American tale Rip van Winkle.
Among other things he was an illustrator for classics such as Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Gulliver's Travels, A Christmas Story, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow".
Rackham was able to secure his deserved place in the history of illustration with his detailed and loving pictures.
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.jpg "Illustration to the story Catskin, from English Fairy Tales Retold by F.A. Steel, 1927 by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "Danae and Her Son Perseus, 1903 by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "The Old Woman in the Wood by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "Brünnhilde on Grane Leaps onto the Funeral Pyre of Siegfried by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "Siegfried Forges His Sword. Illustration for Siegfried and The Twilight of the Gods by Richard Wagner by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "Wotan Turns and Looks Sorrowfully Back at Brünnhilde. Illustration for The Rhinegold and The Valkyr by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "Enter: Cobweb, Moth, Mustardseed & Peaseblossom (Illustration for Shakespeare")
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.jpg "She Went Along, and Went Along, and Went Along Catskin, Illustration from English Fairy Tales, Retold by F.A Steel, 1918 by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "The Fox and the Crow, illustration from")
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.jpg "Where Often You and I Upon Faint Primrose-Beds Were Wont to Lie, Emptying Our Bosoms of Their Counsel Sweet, Illustration from")
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.jpg "Alice and the Mock Turtle, illustration from Alice")
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.jpg "The Kensington Gardens are in London, where the King lives from")
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.jpg "Safely in harbour is the king")
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.jpg "The Old Man had to sit by himself and ate his food from a wooden bowl by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "Sigurd the Dragon Slayer by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "How Mordred was Slain by Arthur, and How by Him Arthur was Hurt to the Death, Illustration from Alfred Pollard")
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.jpg "It was a golden afternoon: the smell of the dust they kicked up was rich and satisfying, from Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame, pub. 1940 by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "The Rhinemaidens Teasing Alberich by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "How at the Castle of Corbin a Maiden Bare in the Sangreal and Foretold the Achievements of Galahad, from Alfred Pollard")
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.jpg "The ride of the Valkyries, illustration from")
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.jpg "Brunnhilde with her horse at the mouth of the cave, illustration from")
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.jpg "By day she made herself into a cat by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "Brunnhilde Slowly and Silently Leads Her Horse Down the Path to the Cave, illustration from")
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.jpg "Balloons (illustration from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, by J.M Barrie, published 1906) by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "I Flee for the First Time and Am Pursued by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "All amidst the garden")
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.jpg "Mime and the Wanderer, 1924 by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "Brunnhilde on Grane leaps on to the funeral pyre of Siegfried, illustration from")
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.jpg "Mock away! Mock! The Nibelung makes for your toy!, illustration from")
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.jpg "The Enchanted Goblet by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "There was no danger, no trouble of any kind, illustration from")
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.jpg "I am old Philemon! murmured the oak, illustration from")
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.jpg "But they said one after another Halloa! Who has been eating off my plate? Who has been drinking out of my cup? by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "The ring upon thy hand. Illustration for Siegfried and The Twilight of the Gods by Richard Wagner by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "Alas! Dear Falada, there thou hangest by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "The Serpentine is a lovely lake, and there is a drowned forest at the bottom of it. If you peer over the edge you can see the trees all growing upside down, from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J.M. Barrie, pub. 1906 by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "The Norns Vanish by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "Alice and the Falling Pack of Cards by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "Furiously Wotan is Riding to the Rock. Illustration for The Rhinegold and The Valkyrie by Richard by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "The Fairies Song, from")
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.jpg "Jewels from the Deep, 1909 by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "Mr and Mrs Vinegar At Home, from")
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.jpg "The Rhine")
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.jpg "The Huntress Diane by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "Bob Cratchit Went Down a Slide on Cornhill, from")
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.jpg "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving, pub. 1928 by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "The Ravens of Wotan, Illustration from")
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.jpg "Christmas Shopping, the Opening of New Premises in Poor Neighbourhood by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "I will sing, that they shall hear I am not afraid, illustration from")
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.jpg "Scrooge and Bob Cratchit, from Dickens")
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.jpg "The Sleeping Princess (illustration by Arthur Rackham for tale by Charles Perrault")
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.jpg "Round the fire an indescribably ridiculous little man was leaping, hopping on one leg, and singing by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "The Rhine")
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.jpg "How at a great fest that King Mark made came Eliot the harper and sang the lay that Dinalan had made, illustration from")
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.jpg "The good little Sister cut off her own tiny finger, fitted it into the lock and succeeded in opening it by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "An Illustration to Rip van Winkle: \"They Were Ruled by an Old Squaw Spirit\", 1904 by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "The Maiden fetched the magic wand, and then she took her step-sisters head, and dropped three drops of blood from it by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "The True Sweetheart, from Little Brother & Little Sister and Other Tales by the Brothers Grimm, pub.1917 by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "The Son made a circle, and his Father and he took their places within it, and the little black Mannikin appeared by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "The Old Woman Seized Her by the Gown and Tried to Hold Her Fast (Illustration by Arthur Rackham from Grimm")
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.jpg "Alice and the Animals After the Caucus Race by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "Siegfried kills Fafner, illustration from")
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.jpg "The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse, illustration from Aesop")
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.jpg "The giant Galligantua and the wicked old magician transform the dukes daughter into a white hind, illustration to Jack the Giant Killer from English Fairy Tales Retold by F.A. Steel, 1927 by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "Illustration for the Fable")
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.jpg "The Mole begged as a favour to be allowed to unpack it all by himself by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "Illustration by Arthur Rackham from Grimm")
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.jpg "He passed under the bridge and came within full sight of the delectable Gardens, from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by J.M. Barrie, pub. 1906 by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "Daughter of the Sea (illustration from The Three Golden Apples, by Nathaniel Hawthorne) by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "When She Got to the Wood She Met a Wolf, from The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm, pub. 1909 by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "Fafner:")
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.jpg "\"And now they never meet in grove or green,\" from act 2, scene 1 of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "Title Page - A Christmas Carol by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "Up and down, up and down, Goblin, lead them up and down, illustration from")
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.jpg "She took him by the wrist, and he laughed till he clucked. Elfin maidens and goblins. Illustration for")
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.jpg "How Tristram was known by the little brachet in the garden of King Mark")
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.jpg "The Three Heads of the Well, from English Fairy Tales Retold by F.A. Steel, 1927 by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "Good Dwarf, can you not tell me where my brothers are? by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "Gulliver Has the Honour of Being Questioned by His Master")
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.jpg "A Crowned Merman, a Sea God Sleeping on a Rocky Shore by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "Bottom and Titania. A scene from")
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.jpg "Gulliver Captures Enemy Fleet, Illustration from Gulliver")
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.jpg "The Blackamoor, Illustration from")
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.jpg "Are you sure, That we are awake It seems to me That yet we sleep, we dream (illustration from")
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.jpg "Siegfried leaves Brunnhilde in search of adventure, illustration from")
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.jpg "A company of odd-looking persons playing at ninepins, from Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "He preferred making friends among the rising generation, with whom he soon grew into great favour., from Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving, pub. 1910 by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "Brunhilde. Illustration for The Rhinegold and The Valkyrie by Richard Wagner, 1910 by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "Santa Claus, illustration from Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "A Water-Nymph, Front Cover Illustration from William Shakespeare")
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.jpg "Somebody has been sitting in my chair, and has sat the bottom out of it! said the Little, Small, Wee Bear, from The Arthur Rackham Fairy Book by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "A young couple arguing, the woman having turned away clutching a handkerchief to her chest by Arthur Rackham")
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.jpg "Items from a Christmas feast spilling out from a horn-shape. Items include a Christmas pudding, sausages, a turkey, a pig, a duck, a pheasant, a pie and fruits by Arthur Rackham")
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