Title:
Title page, German Popular Stories, Volume I, translated from the Kinder und Haus Marchen, collected by M.M. Grimm, from Oral
Tradition
Creator/Contributor:
George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; Charles Baldwyn, London, publisher
Date:
1823
Identifier:
1989.21.1995A
Format:
Book
Etching
Notes:
George Cruikshank made some of the most influential illustrations of the nineteenth century when he created etchings for the
1823 "German Popular Stories," the first English translation of the celebrated collection of folk tales published in German
several years earlier by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. The Vogler Cruikshank collection includes rebound, first edition, first
issues of Volumes I and II of "German Popular Stories" (see also 1989.21.1995B). The collection also holds a copperplate etched
by Cruikshank for "Running after the Golden Goose," illustrating the story, "The Golden Goose," in Volume I of "German Popular
Stories."
Catalogue Raisonne: Reid 4801; Douglas 53; Cohn 369
Inscription: Recto, in plate below design, "G. Cruikshank fect."
Provenance: John F. Talmage; Marshall R. Anspach; Richard A. Vogler, Los Angeles
Subject:
hearths; storytellers; laughing