Here, the baby Peter Pan makes friends with fairies, talks to the birds of Kensington Gardens, explores the Serpentine using a baby-sized bird's nest as a boat, and towards the end, is joined in all these by a lost girl.Īrthur Rackham (1867 - 1939) was a leading artist during the Golden Age of British book illustration. Children will love this delightfully whimsical story of the adventures of Peter Pan as a baby-before his better-known escapades with Wendy, the lost boys, and Captain Hook. This very generously illustrated edition of Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens has 53 large full-colour images by famed children's illustrator Arthur Rackham. 'Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens dishes up a potent local myth, one that even now endows that park with magic.'-Michael Newton, The Guardian. Barrie added a new character to the mythology of the English-speaking world - Peter Pan, the boy who never grew up.

New scans from the 1906 edition Frontispiece Kensington Gardens Balloons The keen sense of fun of a fallen leaf Serpentine Lake Mr.A beautiful, lavishly illustrated edition with colour images on almost every double spread. Kensington Gardens Images and Marginalia from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardensįairy and flower marginalia from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens (more than one edition). You can still connect to them from the main Rackham index, where you can also find other Rackham resources, including fairies and fairytales, Rackham fonts, book links and other Rackham illustrations. Larger collections of Rackham illustrations are now on their own pages. You can find out more about Art Passions and see the list of artists on the home page. About Art Passions: Art Passions began a tribute to artists whose work I grew up, and whose work has meaning for The most common questions are answered there. Note: If you have questions about the art on these pages, please see FAQ. This will make me very grumpy and I will ban your IP address, entire domain or country, depending on how bad it was. If you download the entire site with an offline webstripper, you will take down the site. Important: Please do not link directly to images at artpassions or download the entire site. Artsy Craftsy has a wide selection of Rackham art prints.

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Many other Rackham illustrations are here. The color plates to Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens by Arthur Rackham made the book immediately popular, and drew attention to Rackham, who was not well-known before then. The Peter Pan chapters were extracted and published as a separate work in 1906. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens was originally part of an earlier work, The Little White Bird by J.M. Arthur Rackham : *** Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens *** Art Passions Art Prints More Arthur Rackham Art FAQ Search Site Map Arthur Rackham's Illustration to J.M.

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