John Tenniel
‘The Fairies’ (OWP012)
Title:
The Fairies
Illustrator:
Engraver:
Source Text:
Christian Johann Heinrich Heine,
'The Fairies'
1839 in Once a Week (Bradbury & Evans, London: Bradbury & Evans),
6 (29 Mar 1862),
378–79
Size:
110 mm x 89 mm / 4"11 x 3"16
Illustration appears on:
p. 379
Illustration no.:
1
/ 1
DMVI Code:
OWP012
Notes:
Appears above last two stanzas. Top border curved. Poem subtitled 'Translated from the German of Heinrich Heine'. Translator given as Neville Temple, a pseudonym of Julian Charles Henry Fane (COPAC). Publication date from Draper. Draper gives title of the poem as 'The Nixies', and his note reads: 'Based on a Danish folk song translated into German by Herder and Grimm.'