[The prince has woken the princess with a kiss]
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. 7
Bluebeard's Picture Book
The kiss is related in the verse below: the illustration has now caught up, and even slightly overtaken, the accompanying text. The couple look lovingly into each other's eyes, while roses, revived too, bloom all around.
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Image download and text by Jacqueline Banerjee.