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Book illustrations -- ABC books
32
Book illustrations -- Andersen
6
Book illustrations -- Arabian nights
36
Book illustrations -- Arthurian romances
21
Book illustrations -- Barrie -- Peter Pan
18
Book illustrations -- Beauty and the beast
9
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27
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59
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27
Book illustrations -- Burnett -- Little Lord Fauntleroy
15
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4
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7
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27
Book illustrations -- Clemens -- Mysterious stranger
3
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11
Book illustrations -- Defoe -- Robinson Crusoe
66
Book illustrations -- Eulenspiegel
15
Book illustrations -- Fables
17
Book illustrations -- Fables -- A-D
20
Book illustrations -- Fables -- E-H
34
Book illustrations -- Fables -- I-P
30
Book illustrations -- Fables -- Q-T
12
Book illustrations -- Fables -- U-Z
19
Book illustrations -- Fairy tales
59
Book illustrations -- Fairy tales -- Babes in the wood
28
Book illustrations -- Fairy tales -- Brother and sister
4
Book illustrations -- Fairy tales -- Golden goose
4
Book illustrations -- Fairy tales -- Goose girl
7
Book illustrations -- Fairy tales -- Hop o' my thumb
13
Book illustrations -- Fairy tales -- Lang
11
Book illustrations -- Fairy tales -- Rumpelstiltskin
6
Book illustrations -- Frog prince
7
Book illustrations -- Grimm
51
Book illustrations -- Hansel and Gretel
4
Book illustrations -- Harris -- Little Mr. Thimblefinger
10
Book illustrations -- Harris -- Uncle Remus
5
Book illustrations -- Hawthorne -- Wonder book
6
Book illustrations -- Hoffmann -- Struwwelpeter
14
Book illustrations -- Irving - Rip Van Winkle
28
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20
Book illustrations -- Jack and the beanstalk
11
Book illustrations -- King Nutcracker
9
Book illustrations -- Kingsley -- Water Babies
18
Book Illustrations -- Kingsley -- Westward ho!
16
Book illustrations -- Kipling
2
Book illustrations -- La Motte-Fouqué -- Undine
15
Book illustrations -- Lear -- Nonsense songs
4
Book illustrations -- Little Red Riding Hood
32
Book illustrations -- Night before Christmas
10
Book illustrations -- Omar Khayyam
17
Book illustrations -- Pinocchio
13
Book illustrations -- Potter
43
Book illustrations -- Potter -- Peter Rabbit
14
Book illustrations -- Puss in boots
18
Book illustrations -- Robin Hood
13
Book illustrations -- Sleeping beauty
17
Book illustrations -- Snow White
4
Book illustrations -- Spyri -- Heidi
34
Book illustrations -- Stevenson -- Black arrow
8
Book illustrations -- Stevenson -- Child's garden of verses
10
Book illustrations -- Stevenson -- Kidnapped
7
Book illustrations -- Stevenson -- Treasure Island
4
Book illustrations -- Three bears
18
Book illustrations -- Three little pigs
9
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7
Book illustrations -- Wizard of Oz
17
Books -- 1800s
4
Boys
4
Children -- 1800s
19
Children -- Playing
5
Fairies
11
Girls
3
Illustrations -- A-Z
9
Illustrations -- Booth
8
Illustrations -- Boutet de Monvel
5
Illustrations -- Brooke -- Johnny Crow's garden
8
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9
Illustrations -- Caldecott
4
Illustrations -- Caldecott -- Baby bunting
6
Illustrations -- Caldecott -- Come lasses and lads
12
Illustrations -- Caldecott -- Diverting history of John Gilpin
16
Illustrations -- Caldecott -- Elegy on the death of a mad dog
17
Illustrations -- Caldecott -- Elegy on the glory of her sex, Mrs. Mary Blaize
12
Illustrations -- Caldecott -- Farmer went trotting upon his grey mare
6
Illustrations -- Caldecott -- Farmer's boy
22
Illustrations -- Caldecott -- Fox jumps over the parson's gate
21
Illustrations -- Caldecott -- Great Panjandrum himself
13
Illustrations -- Caldecott -- Milkmaid
13
Illustrations -- Caldecott -- Ride a cock-horse to Banbury Cross
6
Illustrations -- Caldecott -- Three jovial huntsmen
17
Illustrations -- Crane
12
Illustrations -- Crane -- Baby's bouquet
16
Illustrations -- Crane -- Fairy ship
4
Illustrations -- Crane -- Flora's feast : a masque of flowers
8
Illustrations -- Crane -- Floral fantasy in an old English garden
20
Illustrations -- Crane -- Flowers from Shakespeare's garden : a posy from the plays
7
Illustrations -- Crane -- Goody Two Shoes
4
Illustrations -- Crane -- King Luckie Boy's party
5
Illustrations -- Crane -- Masque of days
3
Illustrations -- Crane -- Princess Belle-Etoile
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Collection Data
Description
Almost 2000 images illustrating classic tales told to children, drawn from relevant subject headings in the Picture Collection Reference files: Book illustrations, Nursery rhymes, Fairies, Illustrations, Children, Boys, and Girls.
Dates / Origin
Date Created:
1800 - 1923
(Approximate)
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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection
Topics
Picture books for children
Childrens books
Genres
Illustrations
Type of Resource
Still image
Identifiers
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): a0108230-c5b9-012f-ed50-58d385a7bc34
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Fairy Tales
455
Nursery rhymes
293
Clothing & dress
261
Girls
209
Animals in human situations
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Crane, Walter, 1845-1915
209
Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905
175
Caldecott, Randolph, 1846-1886
164
Greenaway, Kate, 1846-1901
161
Grimm, Jacob, 1785-1863. Kinder- und Haus-märchen
106
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Children's book illustrations
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England
103
Germany
38
New York (State)
14
France
13
United States
11
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genre
Illustrations
1987
Prints
11
Book illustrations
2
Cutouts
2
Illuminations
1
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publisher
Lefevre
2
A. L. Burt
1
A. Wessels Company
1
Century Co.
1
Gutmann & Gutmann
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Wallach Division: Picture Collection
1987
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still image
1987
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The cat she seized the rat by…
Bye, baby bunting!
Baby Bunting
A-hunting.
Father on his horse.
Father has returned from the …
To wrap the baby bunting in.
Off to the maypole
Come lasses and lads, get lea…
Then every man did put his ha…
Then every man did put his ha…
[The fiddler then began to pl…
Maid Marian!
Homage to Maid Marian and Rob…
Now there they did stay the w…
May celebration with characte…
Dancing on the green
And bound themselves, by kiss…
Good night.
The diverting history of John…
John Gilpin and family.
The linendraper bold.
Boarding the chaise in Cheaps…
The 3 customers.
Now see him mounted once agai…
Onlookers chuckle at John Gil…
John Gilpin gallops through t…
And there he threw the wash a…
The dinner waits.
Here's the house!" they all a…
But let me scrape the dirt aw…
or while he spake, a braying …
Away went Gilpin, and away we…
Stop thief! stop thief! a hig…
His ride ended, John Gilpin i…
The mad dog.
Elegy accompanied by lute mus…
An elegy on the death of a ma…
Out for a walk
Inhabitants of Islington
Getting dressed.
A kind and gentle heart he ha…
[The mad dog.]
And in the town a dog was fou…
But, when a pique began.
[The mad dog bit the man.]
Mad dog pandemonium
[The wondering neighbours ran…
Citizens fleeing the mad dog
[The wound was bound.]
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