The Three Norns - book illustration by Arthur Rackham (1924)

"Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) is one of the great artists associated with the Golden Age of Illustration... Rackham's capacity to artistically interpret and represent the lore of fairy tales, myths, fables and legend was prodigious."
~ Spirit of the Ages

The illustration is from Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods by Richard Wagner.

Sources:

• Meisterdrucke
• Wikimedia Commons
• Fine Art America
• Note: some sources list the date for this illustration as 1911.

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