You’ll Burn Yourself

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A man sitting in a dark room gestures toward a cat looking into a pot on the fire — Psht! cat! You'll burn yourself!

Artist

Name:: Unknown
Country:: Norway

Illustration

Subject:: Narratives
Engraver:: Hansen, Hans Peter
Format:: Landscape (wider)
Source:: University of California Libraries, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:: Folk and fairy tales
Author(s):: Asbjørnsen, Peter Christen
Publisher:: New York: A. C. Armstrong & Son, n.d. [1883?]
Open Library:: View record.

Description

A man sitting on the floor of a dark room gestures toward a cat looking closely into a pot on the fire. The glinting eyes of many other cats can be seen around him.

Illustrators for this edition of Folk and Fairy Tales include Peter Nicolai Arbo, Hans Gude, Vincent Stoltenberg-Lerche, Eilif Peterssen, August Schneider, Otto Sinding, Adolph Tidemand, and Erik Werenskiold.

Keywords: 1880s, 19th century, black & white, cat, children's book, dark, eerie