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Front Cover, by KlimschChildren’s Dreams: Colourful Fairy Tales for Young and Old (Kindertraüm: Bunte Märchen für Klein und Groß) (1886)

The front cover of this slim volume shows, at the centre, a seated young woman with a sceptre, presumably a fairy queen, and to her left (our right) a princess with a crown. To the Queen’s right, a yo [...]

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Winged monster of the nightChildren’s Dreams: Colourful Fairy Tales for Young and Old (Kindertraüm: Bunte Märchen für Klein und Groß) (1886)

This monster is facing us, clutching a stick, wings drooped down, tail curved like a corkscrew.

This coloured engraving is a detail from the front cover.

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Weeping childChildren’s Dreams: Colourful Fairy Tales for Young and Old (Kindertraüm: Bunte Märchen für Klein und Groß) (1886)

I think this barefoot young boy sitting on a bench and leaning agsinst a wall or post covering his face, is crying, but he might also be hiding. He has a cloth patch on the leg of his shorts, suggesti [...]

Keywords: children, people, boys, grief, unhappiness, misery, bare feet, poverty, greyscale

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The Fairy CourtChildren’s Dreams: Colourful Fairy Tales for Young and Old (Kindertraüm: Bunte Märchen für Klein und Groß) (1886)

The queen of Fairie is hugging a barefoot boy, probably the one shown here, while the king looks on. In the foreground, winged boys dance in a plume of smoke or fog, and two gnomes, imps, or dwarves, [...]

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