Clever Peter opens the unlucky bottle for the King and the Princess

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Clever Peter opens the unlucky bottle for the King and the Princess
Image Not Available for Clever Peter opens the unlucky bottle for the King and the Princess

Clever Peter opens the unlucky bottle for the King and the Princess

Date1885
Illustration Citation"Clever Peter and the Two Bottles," by Howard Pyle, in Harper's Young People, April 7, 1885
MediumInk on illustration board
Dimensionssheet: 7 11/16 × 14 1/2 in. (19.5 × 36.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum Purchase, 1920
Object number1920-20
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Label TextIn this story, Peter (at right) trades a basket of eggs for the bottle in his hand, from which spring two magical charcaters. They win him the hand of a princess (at left) but only after she and the king are punished for tampering with Peter's mysterious powers. Here father and daughter try to flee their otherworldly tormenters.
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