Wednesday, February 11, 2009

The Golden Apple Tree and the Nine Peahens - Arthur Rackham




The Nine Peahens and the Golden Apples is a Serbian epic poetry. It was published for the first time as a fairy tale by Vuk Stefanović Karadžić in 1853. Later on it was published as a Bulgarian fairy tale by A. H. Wratislaw in his Sixty Folk-Tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources, number 38 in 1890.
Andrew Lang included it in The Violet Fairy Book
Ruth Manning-Sanders included it in The Glass Man and the Golden Bird: Hungarian Folk and Fairy Tales.

2 comments:

Natalis said...

MAster of illustration's world...

Hermes said...

I've been featuring my collection of his works over the past few weeks and it still amazes me how recognisable but versatile he was.