In 1812, the Grimm brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm, published Children and Household Tales, a collection German fairy tales. This illustration accompanied the tale titled "The Girl Without Hands" and shows the girl with the angel helping her to eat the pears in the royal garden because she had lost her hands as a result of the devil and the pact he had made with her father - she had approved for the sake of her father's life but she was still so pure that the devil did not get her. This image is from Grimms Eventyr (Grimm's Fairy Tales) by Carl Ewald, published in 1922. The frontispiece has the il
In 1812, the Grimm brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm, published Children and Household Tales, a collection German fairy tales. This illustration accompanied the tale titled "The Girl Without Hands" and shows the girl with the angel helping her to eat the pears in the royal garden because she had lost her hands as a result of the devil and the pact he had made with her father - she had approved for the sake of her father's life but she was still so pure that the devil did not get her. This image is from Grimms Eventyr (Grimm's Fairy Tales) by Carl Ewald, published in 1922. The frontispiece has the illustrations by Philip Grot Johann and R. Leinweber. Johann was a well-known German illustrator and did pieces for Goethe, but he considered his pieces for Grimm's tales very important. He died young and Leinweber succeeded him as illustrator for later editions of the tales.
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