In Black and White: The Literary Remains of Aubrey Beardsley

Source.

The Treasure of Heaven by Marie Corelli

Source

Fantasy Art

Brian Froud
Wikipedia Entry
World of Froud
Fairies Animated Special

Fidus
Hippie Roots & The Perennial Subculture
Google Image Search

Final Fantasy
Final Fantasy 11
Final Fantasy Wiki

Gehard
Art of Gehard

Herbert James Draper
A Water Baby
Google Images

Arthur Rackham
Rackham Fairy and Fairy Tale Art
Drawings by Arthur Rackham

Jeffrey Catherine Jones
Jeffrey Catherine Jones a Life Lived Deeply
Jeffrey Jones, Illustrator of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Paintings

See Also: The History of Fantasy Art & Fantasy Artists

Alphonse Mucha

Website of the Mucha Foundation
Website of Mucha Museum in Prague
The Slav Epic official site (EN)
The Slav Epic
Works by Alphonse Mucha at the Art Renewal Center
Painting by Mucha Graces Pisek, N. Dak., Church
Mucha Gallery at MuseumSyndicate
Alphonse Mucha – article on La Plume
Alphonse Mucha – illustrations from Le Pater

What a Cake of Soap Will Do (1890)

From Open Collections Program: Women Working: 1800-1930--an interesting collection of old catalogs targeting a primarily North American homemaker readership--the below comes from Proctor and Gamble: What a Cake of Soap Will Do. This illuminated manuscript is a twenty-three page ad in rhyming verse, flowery prose, with printer's ornaments, drawer-ly illustrations.

Loads of pause can be had herein at the generous scribbler's verve expended on, in one instance, the scene of attendees at a magic lantern show (beloved pets + circus animals) exchanging stories about Ivory Soap's purity.

If Ivory's point has not been landed  by the time the Elders of  Brownies have commented about the scourge of dandruff afflicting country fairies, then one is either likely not the intended audience--or dead inside.

Mark also the family doctor who tests the validity of product claims himself; the village of trades cast as characters--like main street America back in the day was verbatim smurf village; the liberal sprinkling of Gibson girls, English lords, and a whole host of by-the-numbers fancy stock types. An enjoyable, only slightly sinisterly commercial, testament to a time when ads were not solely a *visual* medium. Also, a case for, maybe, why they should be.