Walter Crane, Jack escaping with the golden harp.
Wood-engraving. 207 mm x 163 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London.
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Jack escaping with the golden harp
After Walter Crane (1845 - 1915)
RA Collection: Art
207 mm x 163 mm
The Blue Beard picture book : containing Blue Beard, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the beanstalk, The Sleeping Beauty / with thirty-two pages of illustrations by Walter Crane ; printed in colours by Edmund Evans. - London (The Broadway, Ludgate) ; New York (416, Broome Street): [1875]
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