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The Three Jovial Huntsmen

Title: The Three Jovial Huntsmen

 

Author: Anonymous, after the English folk song “The Three Huntsmen” or “Three Jolly Huntsmen”

 

Illustrator: Randolph Caldecott (English, 1846-1886)

 

Engraver and printer: Edmund Evans (English, 1826-1905)

 

Work type: Illustration

 

Medium: color wood engraving

 

Publisher: George Routledge & Sons, London

 

Date: 1880

 

Page: [p. 2]

 

Page size: 227 x 202 mm.

 

Illustration size: 199 x 170 mm.

 

Related text [p. 3]: It’s of three jovial huntsmen, an’ a hunting they did go; An’ they hunted, an they hollo’d, an’ they blew their horns also. / Look ye there!

 

Subjects: Children’s literature; Folk songs; Hunters; Horses; Musical instruments

 

Interpretive notes: The three (possibly myopic) huntsmen ride to the hunt, blowing their horns. [An excerpt of this illustration inspired the original logo for The Horn Book Magazine]

 

Work rights: Work in the public domain

 

Image file: 23092101

 

Repository: Collection of Allan T. Kohl, Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD), Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

 

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