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Title page, German Popular Stories, Volume I, translated from the Kinder und Haus Marchen, collected by M.M. Grimm, from Oral Tradition

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Title: Title page, German Popular Stories, Volume I, translated from the Kinder und Haus Marchen, collected by M.M. Grimm, from Oral Tradition
Creator: George Cruikshank, 1792-1878, British; Charles Baldwyn, London, publisher
Date Created and/or Issued: 1823
Publication Information: Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, UCLA Hammer Museum
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts
Collection: Richard Vogler Cruikshank Collection
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: 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
Type: image
Format: Book Etching
Form/Genre: Book
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft8x0nb68k
1989.21.1995A
Subject: Hearths; storytellers; laughing

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