Up the Tree

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An old man is silhouetted in the higher parts of a tree helping an old woman up — Up the tree.

Artist

Name:: Batten, John Dickson
Dates:: 1860-1932
Country:: UK

Illustration

Subject:: Narratives
Format:: Landscape (wider)
Source:: The New York Public Library, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:: Europa's fairy book
Author(s):: Jacobs, Joseph
Publisher:: London, New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, n.d. [ca. 1916]
Open Library:: View record

Description

An old man is silhouetted leaning back in the higher parts of a tree as he helps an old woman up, so that she can join him on a makeshift flooring consisting of a door thrown across two branches.

Keywords: 1910s, black & white, children's book, climbing, fairy tale, mixed genders, silhouette, tree