Walter Crane, Prince Cheri and the Dragon.
Wood-engraving. 227 mm x 196 mm. © Photo: Royal Academy of Arts, London.
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Prince Cheri and the Dragon
After Walter Crane (1845 - 1915)
RA Collection: Art
227 mm x 196 mm
Aladdin's picture book: containing Aladdin, The yellow Dwarf, Princess Belle-Etoile, The hind in the wood. With twenty-four pages of illustrations by Walter Crane, printed in colours by Edmund Evans. - London; New York: [1876].
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