Fairy Tales & Folklore
The Swineherd Takes the Ten Kisses
Original caption: The Swineherd Takes the Ten Kisses
A young woman leans towards a richly dressed swineherd while attendants gather around them. Pigs crowd the foreground beneath the courtly figures. Ford’s caption identifies the ten kisses demanded in The Swineherd, the opening tale of The Yellow Fairy Book.
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Citation
Henry Justice Ford. "The Swineherd Takes the Ten Kisses" [source caption]. In The Yellow Fairy Book, Andrew Lang. New impression, 1906, Longmans, Green and Co.. Source scan leaf 8. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/yellow-swineherd
Source details
Title from the printed caption. Editorial description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
The same design is printed again at prepared leaf 277, original leaf 301; that repeat is excluded. Caption and story distinguish ten kisses from the later hundred.
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Henry Justice Ford. The Swineherd Takes the Ten Kisses. The Yellow Fairy Book. Scan leaf 8. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/yellow-swineherd