Red Riding Hood Images

Free Pictures of Red Riding Hood

 Richard Andre (1834-1907)

Richard Andre (his real name was William Roger Snow) illustrated this fairy tale on at least two occasions. The first picture comes from Grimm fairy tales made gay with a dozen stories and only one image from Red Riding Hood.

 

The next three illustrations are from the picture book.

Honor Charlotte Appleton (1871-1951)

The illustration below comes from Charles Perrault's Fairy Tales, published in 1919.

Miss Appleton illustrated over 150 books during her lifetime!

George Baxter (1804-1867)

George Baxter was not 'just' an artist and printer. He was an inventor as well. He developed the first commercially sustainable color printing technique.

While he managed to sell licenses to other printing companies he never gained financial success. He was too focused on perfection. For this reason, he was often too slow to deliver a finished project on time.

Gertrud Caspari (1873-1943)

Miss Caspari is credited as an inventor of the so-called caspari style of illustration: simple perspective, light and warm colors, large monochrome areas, and distinctive silhouette borders.

Her style for illustrating children's books is still dominating the market.

Harry Clarke (1889-1931)

Harry Clarke was best known as the stained-glass designer. But his illustrations are very much appreciated among the experts.

The illustration above is from The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault published in 1922.

Herbert Cole (1867-1931)

The picture above comes from A Book of Old English Fairy Tales, published in 1906.

William Wallace Denslow (1856-1915)

W. W. Denslow, the first illustrator of The Wizard of Oz, created a whole series of picture books with his illustrations but also his own adapted text, sometimes very different from the classic versions.

In Denslow's version of Red Riding Hood, we learn how the first wolf was domesticated - and turned into a dog.

Thomas Edward Donnison (1861-1907)

Mr. Donnison is today best known as a comic artist. He also created (adaptation and illustration) a book called Fairy Tales Told Anew.

All classic tales in this book are shortened into one or two sentences!

John Doyle (1797–1868)

The next satirical sketch is titled "Little Red-Riding Hood's Meeting With the Wolf" but instead of the girl and the beast, we can see two men in obviously uneven positions. It's an allusion to the Irish political situation in 1835 when this lithography was made.

The presented men are Daniel O'Connell, political leader of the Catholic majority, and Lord John Russell, leader of the House.

Edmund Evans (1826-1905)

Edmund Evans was the most influential book printer in the second half of the 19th century. He set new, much higher standards for picture books which became available to the masses.

We don't know who created the illustrations above. They could be made by Evans himself but more likely they are the result of collective efforts of his employees.

Peter Gibson Thomson (1851-1931)

Peter G. Thomson was a publisher, not an artist. Anyway, he is the only available copyright holder of the illustrations below. Just like in the case of Edmund Evans, they were very likely made by his employees.

Warwick Goble (1862-1943)

 

Felix de Gray (1889-1925)

Evelyn Stuart Hardy (1865-1935)

John Hassall (1868-1948)

Maud Humphrey (1868-1940)

Louis Icart (1888-1950)

Joseph Martin Kronheim (1810-1896)

Otto Kubel (1868-1951)

Otto Kubel illustrated several fairy tales by the Grimm Brothers for picture books and postcards at the same time. The next two illustrations are the last in the series of six cards.

John Lawson (1838-1909)

It's hard to find reliable data about this Scottish painter who also illustrated several books for children.

While we don't have a clue about his illustration, we know his daughter was Lizzie Mack (1858-1905), who was also a successful painter. They occasionally worked together.

Henry Liverseege (1803-1832)

Henry Liverseege had serious health issues for all of his short but productive life.

While folklore subjects were among his favorite themes, the scene from Red Riding Hood seems to be the only fairy tale on his list.

Frederic Theodore Lix (1830-1897)

Perrault's Fairy Tales were illustrated by Mr. Lix at the end of his career and published after his death.

William Henry Margetson (1861-1940)

We don't know from which project these illustrations came. If you have more info, please, leave a comment below.

Clara Miller Burd (1873-1933)

This American illustrator and stained glass designer illustrated several books for children and grown-ups. Still, unfortunately, we don't know where the illustration below comes from.

Jenny Nystrom (1854-1946)

Jenny Nystrom was one of the most successful postcard designers in history. Characters from folklore and the fairy realm were among her favorite subjects.

Katharine Pyle (1863-1938)

Sister of more known Howard Pyle wrote, translated, adapted, and illustrated several successful books.

Red Riding Hood belongs to Mother's Nursery Tales, published in 1918.

Charles Robinson (1870-1937)

Charles Robinson illustrated Red Riding Hood on more than one occasion.

Harry Rountree (1878-1950)

This illustrator from New Zealand moved to London when he was 23 years old simply because he didn't see a chance to survive as an artist in his homeland.

His picture of Red Riding Hood is from the collection titled My Book of Best Fairy Tales from 1915.

Franziska Schenkel (1880-1945)

Not much is known about this illustrator. Even her birthdate and date of death are somehow questionable.

The image above was published in Grimm's Fairy Tales, a collection of eight color lithographs in 1913. At least two books with her fairy tale illustrations were published before (around 1900). We don't know if The Red Cap was made for the 1913 edition or 'recycled' from one of the earlier ones.

Fritz Schoen (1871-1952)

Like most of his contemporaries, Mr. Schoen didn't rely on illustration only. He was an advertising artist (Palmin), a caricaturist, a painter, ...

The image above is from a series of trading cards based on classic fairy tales.

Henri Thiriet (1873-1946)

Henri (sometimes credited as Henry) Thiriet was best known as a poster artist and designer. He mostly created in Art Nouveau style.

Illustrations come from Perrault's Fairy Tales, published in 1930.

Harrison Weir (1824-1906)

This prolific artist preferred drawing animals. We can safely presume he focused more on the wolf than the other characters in Red Riding Hood.

The illustrations were published in the picture book in Routledge's new sixpenny toy books in 1866. Engrave and printer was Edmund Evans (presented at the beginning of the article).

Jessie Willcox Smith (1863-1935)

Jessie Wilcox Smith was one of the most successful and influential illustrators from the beginning of the 20th century. She portrayed Red Riding Hood on several occasions.

This picture comes from The now-a-days fairy book, published in 1911.

 The illustration above is from A Child's Book of Stories with Pictures from 1911.

 

The picture above was used as one of four for the Premium Swift Calendar for 1916.

All sources for Miss Smith's works are available here.

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