The Ghost MonkI don't post enough dragons, so here's an especially elaborate one by Kay Nielsen. It's an illustration for the Brothers Grimm story 'The Two Brothers'.
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"Your soul... My soul... your soul... my soul..."
A glorious illustration by Kay Nielsen for the story 'John And The Ghosts' which appeared in a lavish 1913 edition of 'In Powder and Crinoline' by Arthur Quiller-Couch.
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Stunning interpretations by Kay Nielsen of Moussorgski's 'Night On A Bald Mountain'.
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Vintage Fantasy Art - NOAI« And flitted away as far as they could from the Castle that lay East of the Sun and West of the Moon », 1913
by Kay Nielsen (Danish artist, 1886-1957)
Illustration for "East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Old Tales from the North" by Peter Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, 1914
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« Then He Coaxed Her Down And Took Her Home », 1914
by Kay Nielsen (Danish artist, 1886-1957)
Illustration for the scandinavian folk tale “The Lassie And Her Godmother”,
from Peter Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe's book "East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Old Tales from the North", 1914
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Cynicism is Obedience« The Man Gave Him a Pair of Snowshoes », 1914
by Kay Nielsen (danish, 1886-1957)
Illustration for the scandinavian folk tale “The Three Princesses of Whiteland”,
from Peter Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe's "East of the Sun and West of the Moon: Old Tales from the North" book, 1914
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Kay Nielsen 1914
"Just as they bent down to take the rose a big dense snowdrift came and carried them away."