In 1812, the Grimm brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm, published Children and Household Tales, a collection German fairy tales. This illustration accompanied the tale Marie Barnet, the daughter of a very poor woodcutter who could not feed his family and so gave his daughter to the Virgin Mary when she asked for her. Mary gave Marie instructions which she did not follow. Yet every time Mary asked her she continued to lie. A king had fallen in love with Marie. After Mary took her children because she would not admit her lie, the people of the kingdom revolted to burn her at the stake, as shown here.
In 1812, the Grimm brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm, published Children and Household Tales, a collection German fairy tales. This illustration accompanied the tale Marie Barnet, the daughter of a very poor woodcutter who could not feed his family and so gave his daughter to the Virgin Mary when she asked for her. Mary gave Marie instructions which she did not follow. Yet every time Mary asked her she continued to lie. A king had fallen in love with Marie. After Mary took her children because she would not admit her lie, the people of the kingdom revolted to burn her at the stake, as shown here. Marie did then admit to the lie and rain quenched the flames. 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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