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In 1812, the Grimm brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm, published Children and Household Tales, a collection German fairy tales. This illustration accompanied the tale Two Brothers. 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. The Tale: A poor man finds a golden bird in the forest, and gets a feather, an egg, and finally the bird itself. He sells each to his brother. The wicked, rich brother plans to eat the golden bird, but the poor man's two sons eat two small pieces that fall from the roasting bird, the heart and liver, which magically bestow upon the eater the ability to wake up with a gold piece every morning. The two sons are cast out. A kind huntsman raises them as his own. When competent huntsmen, they wander the world. The brothers separate. The younger reaches a city mourning because the king's daughter will be given to a dragon the following day. The brother slays the dragon with the help of his animals. The princess divides her necklace among the animals. The brother lays down for a nap. The king's marshal, who watched all, beheads him and makes the princess swear to say that he was the one who slew the multi-headed dragon. Luckily, the animals find a root and restore the brother to life. He returns to the city and finds the princess is going to marry her supposed rescuer. The brother yearns to go hunting in a forest where he meets an old woman who is afraid of his animals and asks him to tap each with a branch. This turns to stone. The woman also turns the brother to stone. When the older brother looks for him, he winds up in the city where his brother has been ruling as king. The brothers look uncannily alike, so everyone mistakes him for the missing king, who does return. Angered at events, he beheads the older brother. The animals they bring the older brother back to life.
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UMG25A05_492
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51,6Mo (3,4Mo) / 29,9cm x 43,2cm / 3536 x 5100 (300dpi)