Odalisque With A Fan By Guillaume Seignac (Late 19th - Early 20th Century)

Swamp Thing by Charles Vess

The Dance of Death by Alphonse Mucha (1898)

Illustration for Act II of Richard Wagner’s Siegfried by Aubrey Beardsley (1892-93)

Moonlight by Alphonse Mucha (1902)

Odalisque by Jules Joseph Lefebvre (1874)

Nude by Giacomo Grosso (1896)

Eldorado

Gaily bedight,

A gallant knight,

In sunshine and in shadow,

Had journeyed long,

Singing a song,

In search of Eldorado.

But he grew old—

This knight so bold—

And o'er his heart a shadow

Fell as he found

No spot of ground

That looked like Eldorado.

And, as his strength

Failed him at length,

He met a pilgrim shadow—

"Shadow," said he,

"Where can it be—

This land of Eldorado?"

"Over the Mountains

Of the Moon,

Down the Valley of the Shadow,

Ride, boldly ride,"

The shade replied—

"If you seek for Eldorado!"

Edward Allen Poe

Illustration to Milton`s Paradise Lost (1807) by William Blake

The Moon through a Crumbling Window (Bodhidharma), woodblock print by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi from the series One Hundred Aspects of the Moon, 1887

“Hand in hand, with fairy grace,

Will we sing, and bless this place.”

Illustration of Titania’s instruction to her fairy train in the last scene of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

c. 1784

Watercolour and graphite on paper