Drawings

Goose Girl

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Type: Drawings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1882
Accession number: 69.50
Maker: Walter Crane(Opens in new tab) (British, 1845–1915)
Dimensions: 8 5/8 x 5 1/4 in. (21.9 x 13.3 cm.) sheet: 12 × 7 1/2 in. (30.5 × 19.1 cm.)
Medium: pen and black ink with corrections by the artist in white opaque paint on board (Bristol)
Credit: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Gift of the Friends
Department: European Art
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Crane was a successful illustrator and writer of children’s books. This drawing is a design for a full-page illustration in one of his most ambitious publications. Household Stories from the Collection of the Brothers Grimm was first published in 1882 as a lavish edition of fifty three fairy tales featuring over a hundred illustrations. The drawing was made for The Goose Girl, the tale of a princess forced to work as a lowly laborer by the evil handmaiden who assumed her royal identity. In this scene, the princess calls up a wind to blow away the hat of a bothersome boy (2022).

Goose Girl

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