whimsy

<n>A summer morning</n> (c. 1908) by <n>Rupert Bunny</n>.

<n>Waldteich</n> by artist <n>Hermann Hendrich</n>.

<n>A Nymph</n> (1901) by <n>Édouard Bisson</n>.

<n>The Sensitive Plant</n> by artist <n>Sir Frank Dicksee</n>.

An illustration by <n>Ida Rentoul Outhwaite</n> from her book <n>Little Book of Elves and Fairies</n>.

Showgirl <n>Sybil Carmen</n> in the <n>Ziegfeld Midnight Frolic</n>, ca. 1915. Photo by <n>Alfred Cheney Johnston</n>.

<n>The Birth of Venus</n> (1852) by painter <n>Henry Courtney Selous</n>.

A detail from the 1896 painting <n>Roman Orgy</n> by artist <n>Vasilii Kotarbinsky</n>.

<n>Hylas and the Nymphs</n>, a <n>Pre-Raphaelite</n> painting by <n>John William Waterhouse</n>, 1896.

Illustration by <n>Ida Rentoul Outhwaite</n>.

Painting <n>Mother Duck with her Ducklings at the Waterfront</n> by artist <n>Constant David Ludovic Artz</n>.

<n>A Water Baby</n>, c. 1900, by <n>Herbert James Draper</n>.

<n>The Vintage Morn</n>, an 1899 painting by <n>Herbert James Draper</n>.

<n>Swans on the River</n> (1880) by <n>Frits Thaulow</n>.