The Magic Mirror

The Magic Mirror
The Magic Mirror

The Magic Mirror

Date1902
Artist Bertha Corson Day American painter and illustrator, 1875–1968
Illustration CitationWhere the Wind Blows, by Katharine Pyle (New York: R.H. Russell, 1902) Frontispiece for Where the Wind Blows, by Katharine Pyle (New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1910)
MediumInk and watercolor on illustration board
Dimensionscomposition: 18 1/4 × 13 1/2 in. (46.4 × 34.3 cm)
sheet: 23 3/8 × 17 3/4 in. (59.4 × 45.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. J. Marshall Cole, 1988
Object number1988-178
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ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextBertha Corson Day's major work was a series of twenty-two illustrations for the book Where the Wind Blows, a collection of folk and fairy tales from different countries, written by Katharine Pyle and published in 1902.

In this illustration, a scene from the German fairy tale Snow White, the seven dwarves try to revive Snow White after she has eaten an apple (left foreground) poisoned by her stepmother.