The water-babies : a fairy tale for land-baby
A children's fairy tale by Charles Kingsley, published in London by Macmillan in 1894 with illustrations by Linley Sambourne, aimed at young readers. The four pictures show a grimy figure seen from behind beside a broom, a figure on a rocky riverbank among trees, a small creature swimming through reeds, and a crowded cluster of grotesque, mischievous sprites around a tree. A designer might take the loose pen-and-ink hatching, the sharp contrast of dark crosshatched shadow against open paper, and the gathering of many small figures into one tangled composition.
