Clever Peter opens the unlucky bottle for the King and the Princess
Date1885
Artist
Howard Pyle
(American illustrator, 1853–1911)
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
On View
Not on viewClassificationsDRAWING
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.
