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)
sheet: 23 3/8 × 17 3/4 in. (59.4 × 45.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. J. Marshall Cole, 1988
Object number1988-178
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
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.
