In 1812, the Grimm brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm, published Children and Household Tales, a collection German fairy tales. This illustration accompanied the tale "Brother and Sister" and shows the sister who has become a queen, the deer, which is the brother transformed after drinking from a spring bewitched by their evil stepmother, and her baby son. To the right is the evil stepmother who has found out they are all still alive and she is plotting her revenge. This image is from Grimms Eventyr (Grimm's Fairy Tales) by Carl Ewald, published in 1922.
In 1812, the Grimm brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm, published Children and Household Tales, a collection German fairy tales. This illustration accompanied the tale "Brother and Sister" and shows the sister who has become a queen, the deer, which is the brother transformed after drinking from a spring bewitched by their evil stepmother, and her baby son. To the right is the evil stepmother who has found out they are all still alive and she is plotting her revenge. 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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