Druids (a.k.a. The Druids)

Joseph Anthony Mugnaini

A lithograph done by Joseph Mugnaini in 1953, working with the California Master Printer, lithographer Lynton Kistler. From a series of mythological themes done in editions of 20. This impression is accompanied by an 'authentication' from Kistler and signed by Mugnaini.

Mugnaini began his long-time collaboration with author Ray Bradbury in 1952, during which time he interpreted and illustrated many of Bradbury's books, including "Fahrenheit 451" through the "Martian Chronicles".

Druidism has been described as a shamanic religion as it relied on the spirit world and holistic medicines to treat illnesses or to cause them. Druids have been described as priests of an ancient Celtic religious order. In the Celtic world they served also as teachers, justices, healers, advisers, soothsayers, and poets. In Mugnaini’s lithograph, the Druids appear to be celebrating the Winter or Summer Solstice at the Neolithic Stonehenge in Wilshire, England.