Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
 
reproduction from The Little Green Road to Fairyland, originally published in 1922
 
 
Image size size 17.5 cm x 21cm 
 
Ida Outhwaite was born into a gifted literary and artistic family.   
Her illustrations were first published in 1903 in the Australian magazine, New Idea.  In 1916 she brought out her first coloured work, Elves and Fairies which was a great success .