Fairy Tales & Folklore
The Prince Throws the Apple to the Princess
Original caption: The Prince Throws the Apple to the Princess
A richly armoured rider reaches upward towards a princess leaning from a window. His horse’s decorated head and the long lance fill the narrow foreground. Ford’s caption identifies the apple thrown to the princess in The Golden Crab.
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Citation
Henry Justice Ford. "The Prince Throws the Apple to the Princess" [source caption]. In The Yellow Fairy Book, Andrew Lang. New impression, 1906, Longmans, Green and Co.. Source scan leaf 57. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/yellow-golden-crab
Source details
Title from the printed caption. Editorial description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
The narrative has two apple exchanges. The monochrome plate does not by itself establish the metal of the apple depicted.
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Henry Justice Ford. The Prince Throws the Apple to the Princess. The Yellow Fairy Book. Scan leaf 57. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/yellow-golden-crab