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Little Red Riding Hood's house (Épinal imagery, The little architect, n°53)

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Date :
1868
Type of image :
Lithographie
zincographie sur papier, colorié au pochoir
Dimensions (HxL cm) :
47x38 cm
Signed work

Description

The wolf in Grandma's bed is upside down on the cutting board, so at first it's unrecognizable. It's stuck to the bottom of the house, which is therefore the grandmother's house, not Little Red Riding Hood's...

The roof of the house is red, by contamination of the hood...

History :
  1. Signed lower left "Imp[rimerie] lith[ographie] PELLERIN & Cie à Épinal, Fournisseurs Brevetés de S. M. l'Impératrice. Property of the Publishers. (Déposé.)"
Textual Sources :
Perrault, Contes de ma mère l’Oye (1695-7), Le Petit Chaperon rouge

Technical Data

Notice #024479

Image HD

Image editing :
Image web