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- Title
- The father proposes to lose the children; They leave Hop-O'My Thumb and his brothers in the wood, frontispiece to Hop-O'My-Thumb and the Seven-League Boots
- Creator
- George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; David Bogue, London, publisher
- Date Created and/or Issued
- 1853
- Publication Information
- Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA Hammer Museum
- Contributing Institution
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UCLA,
Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts
- Collection
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Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection
- Rights Information
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- Description
- One of six plates for "Hop-O'My-Thumb and the Seven-League Boots," the first of four books in the series, "George Cruikshank's Fairy Library." Cruikshank edited the text--imbuing the tale with his Temperance beliefs--and designed and etched illustrations for each book in his "Fairy Library." The three other books in the series are: "The History of Jack and the Bean-stalk" (David Bogue, 1854), "Cinderella and the Glass Slipper" (David Bogue, 1854, see 1989.21.1943A), and "Puss in Boots" (Routledge, Warne & Routledge and F. Arnold, 1864).
Catalogue Raisonne: Reid 5032; Douglas 263; Cohn 196
Inscription: Recto, in plate, "George Cruikshank" at c. of lower edge
- Type
- image
- Format
- Book Etching
- Form/Genre
- Book
- Identifier
- http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft8p3008p4
1989.21.1940A
- Subject
- Fairy tales; families; abandoned children; giants; woods
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