Peer Gynt byHenrik Ibsen, magnificently illustrated byArthur Rackham and published in 1936 byGeorge G. Harrap & Co. The subject proved ideally suited to Rackham’s mature imagination. By the 1930s, his palette had grown more restrained and atmospheric — a departure from the jewel-toned exuberance of his Edwardian work — and in.