File #2756: "Arthur Rackham's Illustration for "The Seven Ravens""

From the Brothers Grimm tale "The Seven Ravens" this illustration is a muted watercolor-and-ink depiction of a young girl kneeling beside a massive, rough-textured door built into a towering rock or tree-like surface. She wears a dark blue dress dotted with white and carries a red tartan bundle and a small wooden stool strapped across her back. Leaning forward, she presses her injured hand and severed finger into the door's small keyhole to open the lock. Swirling blue-green water, scattered rocks, and strange shadowy forms fill the foreground and middle distance, while jagged mountains rise beneath heavy dark clouds. The subdued blues, greens, browns, and grays create a bleak, unsettling fairy-tale landscape.

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Arthur Rackham's Illustration for "The Seven Ravens"