whimsy illustration

A still of <n>Princess Aurora</n> from <n>Walt Disney</n>'s 1959 animated film, <n>Sleeping Beauty</n>.

An <n>Art Nouveau</n> illustration by artist <n>Violet Moore Higgins</n>.

<n>Elves and Fairies</n>, a 1916 lithograph by artist <n>Ida Rentoul Outhwaite</n>.

Le Jardin des caresses, an illustration by French artist <n>Léon Carré</n>, 1921.

A photograph by <n>Clarence Hudson White</n>.

A gouache painting depicting <n>The Star Tarot Card</n>.

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

<n>Lady at the Swan Lake</n> (1886), a <n>Symbolist</n> painting by <n>Max Nonnenbruch</n>.

<n>Hernani; - dernier acte</n> (1902) by <n>Louis-Édouard Fournier</n>, depicting a scene from Victor Hugo's play.

<n>The Little Mermaid</n> (1905), an illustration by artists <n>Heinrich Lefler</n> and <n>Joseph Urban</n>.

<n>The Pool</n> (1916) by artist <n>Ida Rentoul Outhwaite</n>.

<n>The Little Sea Maid</n> (1916), an <n>Art Nouveau</n> illustration by <n>Harry Clarke</n> for Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales.

Illustration of a <n>Fire-Ball</n> seen from the <n>Observatory at Juvisy</n>, August 10, 1899.

Illustration of the moon's phases from <n>The Earth and the Sky</n> (1898) by <n>Edward S. Holden</n>.

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

<n>Romantic Encounter</n> (1864) by Hungarian artist <n>Mihály von Zichy</n>.

<n>Flower fairies in a shell</n> by Australian artist <n>Ida Rentoul Outhwaite</n>.

An illustration by <n>Kay Nielsen</n> for the book <n>East of the Sun and West of the Moon</n>, 1914.

A still from the animated film <n>The Aristocats</n> (1970).

<n>The Mermaid</n> (1910) by artist <n>Howard Pyle</n>.

Dancers from the <n>Margaret Morris</n> school, circa 1920s.

Illustration by <n>Gustaf Tenggren</n> from a 1923 edition of <n>Grimm's Fairy Tales</n>.

An illustration by Danish artist <n>Kay Nielsen</n> for the 1914 book <n>East of the Sun and West of the Moon</n>.

<n>The Rhine Maidens</n> (1911), an illustration by artist <n>Arthur Rackham</n>.