Peterkin as a girl combs the Giant's hair

Peterkin as a girl combs the Giant's hair
Peterkin as a girl combs the Giant's hair

Peterkin as a girl combs the Giant's hair

Date1886
Artist (American illustrator, 1853–1911)
Illustration Citation"Peterkin and the Little Gray Hare," by Howard Pyle, in Harper's Young People, March 23, 1886; reproduced in The Wonder Clock or Four & Twenty Marvelous Tales, by Howard Pyle (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1888)
MediumInk and graphite on illustration board
Dimensionscomposition: 7 1/16 × 7 1/2 in. (17.9 × 19.1 cm)
sheet: 9 3/8 × 9 5/8 in. (23.8 × 24.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum Purchase, 1919
Object number1919-17
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ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextIn this fairy tale, Peterkin - here in the form of a girl - has magic adventures with the help of a gray hare whose life he has saved from a trap.
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