This gallery of illustrations is linked to information about individual artists and the genres and time periods in which they have worked.
Rafting to the Island
“They made little rafts out of twigs, and they paddled away over the water to Owl Island to gather nuts. Each squirrel had a little sack and a large oar, and spread out his tail for a sail.”
The Mice Listen to the Tailor’s Lament
"One-and-twenty button-holes of cherry-coloured silk! To be finished by noon of Saturday: and this is Tuesday evening. Was it right to let loose those mice, undoubtedly the property of Simpkin? Alack, I am undone, for I have no more twist!"
First he ate some lettuces
“My dear Noël, I don’t know what to write you, so I shall tell you the story about four little rabbits..."
“Shove that under your feet,” he observed to the Mole, as he passed it down into the boat
"That Rackham's last subject in book-illustration should have been one in which he took especial pleasure...demonstrates a kind of poetic justice not commonly found."
Fairies of the Serpentine
"The Serpentine is a lovely lake, and there is a drowned forest at the bottom of it."
