Thursday, September 29, 2016

The Savage Fairies Set Their Dragon on the King, and It Devoured Him before My Very Eyes (1892)

The Fairy Tales of Madame D'Aulnoy, Newly Done Into English With an Introduction by Ann Thackery Ritchie, Illustrated by Clinton Peters (London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1868), 373.

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Sunday, September 25, 2016

And at One Sup / He Eat Them Up / As One Should Eat an Apple (1878)

Llewellynn Jewett, “The Dragon of Wantley and the Family of Moore,” Illustration is a facsimile of original woodcut from the broadsheet “An Excellent Ballad of that most Dreadful COMBATE FOUGHT Between Moore of Moore hall and the Dragon of Wantley To a Pleasant Tune much in Request,”  The Reliquary 18 (April 1878): plate 16.

Thursday, September 22, 2016

No. 1. Extra Large Double Dragon Ink (1884)

Winsor and Newton’s Catalogue of Colours and Materials for Water Colour Painting, Pencil, Chalk, and Architectural Drawing (London: Winsor & Newton, Limited, 1884), 22.

Tuesday, September 20, 2016

The Dragon Ship Was Glittering in the Bay (1888)

Elizabeth Jane Oswald, The Dragon of the North: A Tale of the Normans in Italy (London: Seeley and Co., 1888), frontispiece.

Tuesday, September 13, 2016

And There Was a War in Heaven (1886)

Adolphe Napoléon Didron, translated from the French by E.J. Millington, completed with additions and appendices by Margaret Stokes, “St. Michael and the Dragon,” Christian Iconography;or the History of Christian Art in the Middle Ages. Vol II. The Trinity: Angels: Devils: Death: The Soul: The Christian Scheme: Appendices (London: George Bell and Sons, 1886), 185.

Sunday, September 11, 2016

All Dread to Anger the Dragon (1880)

Mrs. E.W. Latimer. “St. George and the Dragon.” St. Nicholas 7 (April 1880): 496.