"The Sleeping Beauty" by Walter Crane

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[The prince finds the slumbering princess]

Walter Crane, RWS (1845-1915)

Engraved and printed in colour by Edmund Evans

1898 ed., but originally published by Routledge in 1876

The Sleeping Beauty, p. 6

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At last he came to the tower and opened the door (illustration for the Grimms' version)

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Passing the sleeping attendants, one young and one old, the prince casts aside the curtains, with their promising motifs of red roses and swooping birds. He sees the princess at last. The hour foretold by the good fairy, after the bad one's curse, has arrived. An hour-glass lies on the floor, its sand balanced between past and future.

Bibliography

Bluebeard's Picture Book. Reissue. London & New York: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1898. Internet Archive version of a copy in the Smithsonian Libraries. Web. 8 June 2021.

Created 7 June 2021