In 1812, the Grimm brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm, published Children and Household Tales, a collection German fairy tales. This illustration accompanied the tale "The Dancing Princesses." Here the king, the father of the 12 princesses, is looking at one shoe, with holes, and wondering where his daughters had been the night before. The person who can solve the nightly mystery will have his choice of the princesses. So it happenes that a man, with the help of a sorcerer, finds th princesses dancing all night with princes. He claims the eldest daughter as his bride. This image is from Grimms Event
In 1812, the Grimm brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm, published Children and Household Tales, a collection German fairy tales. This illustration accompanied the tale "The Dancing Princesses." Here the king, the father of the 12 princesses, is looking at one shoe, with holes, and wondering where his daughters had been the night before. The person who can solve the nightly mystery will have his choice of the princesses. So it happened that a man, with the help of a sorcerer, finds the princesses dancing all night with princes. He claims the eldest daughter as his bride. 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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