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Brave Little Tailor

The Brave Little Tailor

Record number: 23051102

Artist: Hinke, Gorter (Dutch, 1866-1956)

Item caption, front: Brüder Grimm / Das tapfere Schneiderlein / G. Hinke, pinx.

Item caption/descriptive text, back: 4. Den König reute sein Versprechen. Der Schneider sollte zuerst das gefürchtete Einhorn im Walde erlegen, ehe er die Königstochter zur Frau bekäme. Er zog in den Wald und reizte das Einhorn. Das wilde Tier rannte auf den Schneider zu, um ihn zu durchbohren. Der verbarg sich hinter dem Baumstamm und hatte nun das Tier, das sich mit seinem Horn festgebohrt hatte, gefangen. = The king regretted his promise. He decreed that the Tailor must first kill the dreaded unicorn of the forest before he could marry the king's daughter. The Tailor went into the forest and taunted the unicorn. The beast ran at the Tailor to pierce him with its horn. He dodged behind a tree, and thereby caught the animal, which had stuck its horn into the trunk.

Uniform title: Grimm: Das tapfere Schneiderlein (“The Brave Little Tailor” or “Seven with One Blow”)

Dimensions: 141 x 93 mm.

Date: ca. mid-1920s or earlier

Nationality: German

Publisher: Uvachrom Gesellschaft für Farbenphotographie m.b.H., Stuttgart, [Germany]

Series: Serie 299 Nr. 4782

Medium: Uvachrom color print from original watercolor painting

Interpretive notes: The Little Tailor captures a fierce unicorn by taunting it into charging at him and then dodging, causing the beast's horn to stick in a tree.

Subject headings: Unicorns

Credit: The Jack Zipes Historic Fairy Tale Postcard Collection/Minneapolis College of Art and Design

 

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Uploaded on July 22, 2023