Tale Collection (page 12)

The second Gloster Gorcock, J7502, with a Grebe-type tal?
The second Gloster Gorcock, J7502, with a Grebe-type tale unit

The second Gloster Gorcock, J7502, with a Gamecock-type ?
The second Gloster Gorcock, J7502, with a Gamecock-type tale unit

Comic Postcard - Marine getting into action
Comic Postcard - The Love Tale of a Marine Getting into action. Date: circa 1905

Library of Congress Mural - Tale of the Eastern Story Teller
Washington DC, USA - Mural - The Evolution of the Book by John White Alexander (1856-1915). Found in the Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building. Oral Tradition

Nursery Tale - Baby Bunting - Bewitched
Nursery Tale - Baby Bunting - Baby Bunting Bewitched and turned into a white rabbit. Date: 1880

Nursery Tale - Fighting for the Crown - Lion and the Unicorn Date: 1880

Nursery Tale - The Fairy Fountain - Jack and Jill reach the water source at the summit of the hill - their downfall is imminent... Date: 1880

Nursery Tale - Humpty Dumpty - HD takes a nasty fall and it is unlikely that all the Kings Horses or indeed all the Kings Men will be able to exact a repair... Date: 1880

Nursery Tale - Four and Twenty Blackbirds - the birds burst out of the pie. Date: 1880

A rather tall tale of the largest fish ever caught
" My Father e once caught a fishas big -as our street!" " Well, then, it must ave bin a Whale." " Garn, e were baitin wi Whales!" Date: 1901

Man at bar wanting clove to disguise evidence of his boozing
Drunken gentleman leaning against a bar, requesting the barmaid for a clove to disguise the olfactory evidence of his boozing

Wise King Berendey - copy of an 1885 painting by Viktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov (a Russian artist who specialized in mythological and historical subjects). Date: 1885

Mrs Caudles Curtain Lectures - Mr Caudle late to bed
" Pretty Time of night to come to bed Mr Caudle. Ugh! Enough to give any woman her death. I m sure." (Mrs Caudles Lectures) First published in " Punch" in 1845

An elf at the door of a witchs house
An elf appears frightened as a witch comes out of her house to see him. c. 1920

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" VALLE-INCLAN, Ram󮠍 aric del Valle y Pe񡬠 named (1866-1936). Cover of the 11st volume of Valle Inclᮧs " Opera Omnia"

Book of Knight Zifar. ca. 1300. First adventures tale written in Spanish. Page depicting a citys conquest. Manuscript from Paris Ms.36, 1464. Gothic art. Miniature Painting. FRANCE. Paris

GREEN, Charles (1840-1898). Pears Annual Christmas
" GREEN, Charles (1840-1898). Pears Annual Christmas 1892. Front page from Pears Annual Christmas, where Dickens tale " A ghost story of Christmas" was published. Engraving."

The African city of Zanzibar

The Tale of Genji
TAKAYOSHI, Fujiwara (ca. 1127-1179). The Tale of Genji, illustration of chapter 39, work Genji

Ivan and the Czar of Russia. The old man knelt in front of the mighty Czar of Russia

The Little Swan Maiden. Gilda and her friend the shepherd boy fly away by swan

The Jester Knight. Alric the court jester uses his skills to distract robbers

The Magic Patches. Orphan girl Linda sews patches on the coat of a beggar-man

The Princess in the Tower. The Queen shows off the tapestry created by her daughter to the King of a nearby land

Picture No. 10612786
The Princess in the Tower. Princess Olivia denies soiling her hands making tapestries

The Beggar Princess. Clara is invited to the Princes ball

The new gnome king orders a fine meal from the cook
The Gnome Who Wanted to be King. The new gnome king orders a fine meal from the cook

Ministers interrupt the new gnome kings meal
The Gnome Who Wanted to be King. Ministers interrupt the new gnome kings meal

Modern fairy tale: submarine and mermaids

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