English: Sleeping Beauty

Record number: 23051402 Artist: Kubel, Otto (German, 1868-1951) Item caption, front: Brüder Grimm / Dornröschen / O. Kubel, pinx. Item caption/descriptive text, back: 2. Es geschah, daß am Tage, wo sie gerade fünfzehn Jahre alt ward, die Prinzessin allein im Hause war und allerorten im Schloss herumwanderte. Dabei kam sie in einem alten Turm, in dem ganz oben ein altes Mütterchen hauste und spann. = It so happened that on the day when she was just fifteen years old, the princess was alone in the house and wandered about all over the palace. She climbed an old tower in which an old woman lived and spun at its top. Uniform title: Grimm: Dornröschen (“The Sleeping Beauty” or “Briar Rose”); Perrault: La Belle au bois dormant ("The Sleeping Beauty") Dimensions: 140 x 93 mm. Date: ca. early 1920s or earlier Nationality: German Publisher: Uvachrom Gesellschaft für Farbenphotographie m.b.H., München [Munich]-Stuttgart, [Germany] Series: Serie 140 Nr. 3801 Medium: Uvachrom color print from original watercolor painting Interpretive notes: Princess Briar Rose, exploring an old tower in the castle, comes upon an old woman spinning and imprudently touches the spindle. A cat and a raven look on knowingly. Subject headings: Princesses; Spinning wheels; Cats; Ravens; Fairies

Credit: The Jack Zipes Historic Fairy Tale Postcard Collection/Minneapolis College of Art and Design