The Dragon flies off with the Empress, illustration from The violet fairy book (1906) by Henry Justice Ford.
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Henry Justice Ford was a British illustrator active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, who was noted in particular for his pen and ink illustrations of fairy stories.
The link is to a page on Wikimedia Commons from which you can access a large image. The title legend is cut off at the bottom in this image, you can see a smaller version of the whole plate here.
The online images are apparently photographed from old copies of the book in which the paper has yellowed. I’ve taken the liberty of color correcting the large image to appear on white, as I believe would have originally been the case.
Ford does some good dragons.
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