La prisonnière et le chevalier (The prisonner and the knight).
Tony Johannot, from Œuvres complètes de P. J. de Béranger (The complete works of Béranger), Paris, 1856.
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Vilhelm Pedersen, frontispiece from Eventyr og historier (Fairy-tales and stories) vol. 1, by Hans Christian Andersen, Kristiana, 1913.
(Many artists have illustrated Andersen’s fairy tales, but V. Pedersen was the first)
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Swarm of locusts.
From Brehms Tierleben (Brehm’s animal life) vol. 9, by Alfred Edmund Brehm, Leipzig, Vienna, 1893.
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This picture was taken from Contes Drolatiques (Droll Stories), by H. de Balzac, illustrated by Gustave Doré Paris, 1881 (tenth edition).
