Idioma: inglês Rooted in tales both ancient and modern, these images date from the early twentieth century's Golden Age of Illustration. Edmund Dulac, a artist of the period, created them for books published between 1905 and 1928. Their moods range from the shadowy foreboding of Jane Eyre to the venturesome spirits of Treasure Island and the lighthearted fantasies of A Fairy Garland. Other featured titles include Shakespeare's The Tempest, The Arabian Nights, The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam, and the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen. After World War I, the artist turned his talents in new directions, including portraiture, theatrical costume and set design, newspaper caricature, and stamp design. This retrospective of his early works seeks to be an anthology offering a tribute to an artist from a halcyon era of art inspired by literature