Isn’t this the most sneery, evil, White Witch ever? She’s clapping her hands after some showy but failed assault on her castle, saying “Well done, children, that was a good effort if a little lame I must say. Now I will turn all of you into stone.”
Art by rjrgjj
This pic was done for International Womens Day, according to the artist. Well, Jadis IS a woman, even if she has giantish blood. I like the coloration and hurried sketchiness of it.
A colorized still of Vivien Leigh, who played Lady Anne in a stage production of Richard III (1949). She’s not a White Witch, but could be one with the white veil and gold crown. I’d like to see more Medieval-inspired White Witches like this with sheer wimples.
A slinky White Witch with a sword / wand. Likely too sexy for a children’s book, but the headdress is certainly novel.
Theater poster or book cover? There’s nothing that special about it, but the witch’s crown does combine the best of the “book canon” design school and the “let’s-be-creative-with-branches/icicles” one.
Not a white witch either, but her garb and pose suggest one, and she does have another design element I’d like to see more of: the upswept hair that suggests a 1940s rolled ‘do or a 1950s beehive.
Artwork by Tim Hartman
This poster cheapens the idea of the witch/Aslan conflict. She’s smirking and making lovey-dovey eyes at him, as if all this business with the sacrifice at the Stone Table is a jolly good lark, let’s not take it so seriously, doncha know? Aslan, wisely, isn’t responding.
This sketch for a theatrical or fancy dress costume was done way back in 1908, I assume, so it came before Lewis’s conception of the White Witch. But it could be her with her white and frost-blue costume, haughty bearing, and wand/spear. She even has a polar bear throw for her lap as she rides through the snow, though her feet are, strangely, bare. It’s also the kind of costume style young Lewis would have seen in his growing-up years.
