Pandora Desires to Open the Box

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Pandora is sitting on a large wooden chest, tracing a finger along its richly decorated surface

Pandora desires to open the box.

(Facing p. 86.)

Artist

Name:: Crane, Walter
Dates:: 1845-1915
Country:: UK

Illustration

Subject:: People
Format:: Portrait (taller)
Source:: The New York Public Library

Book

Title:: A wonder book for girls & boys
Author:: Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Publisher:: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1892
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Pandora, wearing a wreath of flowers, sits upon a large and ornate wooden chest, tracing a finger along the rich decoration carved on its surface.

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