[Illus. of children's stories in Harper's Young People: Boots tricks the princess into showing herself] – Antique Print
![[Illus. of children's stories in Harper's Young People: Boots tricks the princess into showing herself] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e1/e18aadb14e97-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this historic print of [Illus. of children's stories in Harper's Young People: Boots tricks the princess into showing herself]. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Illus. of children's stories in Harper's Young People: Boots tricks the princess into showing herself]
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In this engraving, the cat Boots, the clever hero of the fairy tale "Puss in Boots," lures a princess into revealing herself, a moment of sly trickery that drives the story forward. The tale comes from Charles Perrault's collection, first published in 1697, and it had been retold for generations of children by the time this image appeared. The picture was printed in *Harper's Young People*, a weekly magazine for young readers published by Harper & Brothers in New York from 1879 to 1895, and it shows how illustrated periodicals of the 1880s brought classic folklore into American homes. The catalog record for the image is drawn from an older caption card, so some of its details remain unverified.
| Medium | 1 print. |
|---|---|
| Notes | 1886 |
| Subjects | of drawing by H.P. Illus. in: Harper's Young People, p. 78. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Children--Misc.; Rats...; Fables...; Children's Lit.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,090 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-135840 |
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