In 1812, the Grimm brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm, published Children and Household Tales, a collection German fairy tales. This illustration accompanied the tale "Clever Hans" and shows Hans after he has accepted the gift of a ham from his fiancee Gretel and leads it by a rope (which is what his mother had told him he should have done with the previous gift from Gretel), only to have dogs take and eat it. 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
In 1812, the Grimm brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm, published Children and Household Tales, a collection German fairy tales. This illustration accompanied the tale "Clever Hans" and shows Hans after he has accepted the gift of a ham from his fiancee Gretel and leads it by a rope (which is what his mother had told him he should have done with the previous gift from Gretel), only to have dogs take and eat it. 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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