Walter Crane, The Magician accosts Aladdin.
Wood-engraving. 226 mm x 195 mm.
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The Magician accosts Aladdin
After Walter Crane (1845 - 1915)
RA Collection: Art
226 mm x 195 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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