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Vintage illustration classic children's fairy tale story book image, Cinderella by Millicent Sowerby, 1915. Cinderella's fairy godmother is about to turn her dirty old rags into a magical beautiful dress with her magic wand so the young girl Cinderella can look like a princess and go to the ball and dance with her prince harming.

Vintage illustration classic children's fairy tale story book image, Cinderella by Millicent Sowerby, 1915. Cinderella has been transformed into a beautiful princess by her fairy godmother and is wearing her new dress and glass slippers. She is riding away in her golden coach on the way to the ball to meet her prince and live happily ever after. The coach and coachmen were a pumpkin and mice that her fairy godmother used her magical wand and by magic turned them into a carriage driven by men.

Vintage illustration Victorian Era fairy tale image featuring a fairy with big, beautiful butterfly wings by Charles Robinson, 1911.

Vintage illustration classic children's fairy tale image from Treasure Island, an adventure novel by Robert Louis Stevenson. The Pirate Captain and his crew finding the buried treasure on the beach with a map. Their pirate ship is in the ocean or sea waiting for their return.

Vintage illustration classic children's fairy tale story book image featuring the Scarecrow from the Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum. He has tufts of straw coming out of his clothes and is wearing a pointy hat. He is standing in a wheat field at night with a crescent moon in the sky and haystacks behind him. If I only had a brain.

Vintage illustration Victorian Sleeping Beauty children's fairy tale story book image featuring the princess 'Beauty,' sleeping in a beautiful bed and her Prince Charming by her side about to kiss her awake. Sleeping Beauty is a classic fairy tale which involves a beautiful princess, enchantment and a handsome prince. It is the first in the set published in 1697 by Charles Perrault (1628–1703). Vintage illustration by Carl Offterdinger, c. 1880.

The Captive Robin, c. 1864, by artist John Anster Christian Fitzgerald. Vintage illustration Victorian Era children's fairy tale design featuring beautiful fairies, forest creatures, animals, birds and a red robin gathered together. A classic magical "Fairy Fitzgerald" theme.

This vintage illustration depicts the classic fairy tale scene of Prince Charming leaning over Sleeping Beauty as she lies asleep in her canopy bed. The prince is about to kiss her awake so they can get married and live happily ever after. Sleeping Beauty is wearing a crown or tiara and is surrounded by pink flowers and roses.

Vintage illustration Cinderella, aka The Little Glass Slipper, classic children's fairy tale story book image featuring Cinderella running down the stairs out of the castle when the clock strikes midnight and she loses her glass slipper. Her Prince Charming is standing in the doorway watching her leave. Cinderella is a fairy tale that embodies a myth-element of unjust oppression and triumphant reward. Cinderella is a young woman living in unfortunate circumstances that are suddenly changed to remarkable fortune. One of the most popular versions of Cinderella was written in 1697 by Charles Perrault (1628–1703). Vintage illustration By Carl Offterdinger, c. 1880.

Vintage illustration classic children's fairy tale story book image featuring Cinderella dressed in rags and her magical fairy godmother holding a glowing magic wand about to grant her wish. The girl is about to be transformed into a beautiful princess so she can go to the ball to meet her handsome Prince Charming and live happily ever after.

Vintage illustration Little Brother and Little Sister classic children's fairy tale story book by the Brothers Grimm. A love and romance image featuring a girl (feeling like a princess) is riding on a horse with her romantic Prince Charming. Her brother was transformed into a deer after drinking water from a spring. Modern psycho-analysis interprets the relation between brother and sister in this story as a metaphor for the animalistic and spiritual duality in humans. The brother represents the instinctive and the sister the rational side. Vintage Victorian illustration By Carl Offterdinger, c. 1880.

Vintage illustration classic children's fairy tale story by Hans Christian Andersen, Thumbelina. The Fairy Princess Thumbelina and her Prince are getting married in the forest surrounded by friends and fairies. Thumbelina receives a pair of wings from her prince now she can fly from flower to flower with him. After their wedding the newlyweds will live happily ever after in their fantasy kingdom in the magical forest.

Vintage illustration classic children's fairy tale story book image featuring Little Red Riding Hood carrying a picnic basket with goodies and meets the big bad wolf on her way to see her grandmother.

Vintage illustration Hansel and Gretel fairy tale design with the witch and candy house in the forest. Hansel and Gretel is a classic children's fairy tale from Germany, originally published by the Grimm Brothers in 1812.

Vintage Mother Goose Book cover illustration featuring Mother Goose reading a book to a group of children.

Vintage illustration classic fairy tale image, the Pied Piper of Hamelin is the subject of a legend concerning the departure or death of a great many children from the town of Hameln, Germany, in the Middle Ages. The earliest references describe a piper, dressed in pied (multicolored) clothing, leading the children away from the town never to return. In the 16th century the story was expanded into a full narrative, in which the piper is a rat-catcher hired by the town to lure rats away with music form his magic pipe. When the citizens refuse to pay for this service, he retaliates by turning his magic on their children, leading them away as he had the rats.

Vintage illustration classic children's fairy tale and nursery rhymes image. The Boy and the North Wind features a young child, a farmer, is walking along a path with his pet goat. He seeks out the North Wind who gives him a magic cloth, a magical goat that gives money and a magic stick.

Vintage illustration the Ugly Duckling is a fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875). The story tells of a homely little bird who grows and matures into a graceful swan, the most beautiful bird of all. A tale about personal transformation for the better. Here two children, a brother and a sister, are looking at a pond with swans and a castle is in the background

Vintage illustration fairy tale design featuring the Princess from the story The Frog Prince. Here the princess is gazing at her reflection in a pond waiting for her prince to come along.

Rabbit Among the Fairies by John Anster Christian Fitzgerald. Vintage illustration Victorian Era fairy tale design featuring fairies, animals, forest creatures and a large rabbit in a meadow. A magical classic "Fairy Fitzgerald" theme.

The Enchanted Forest by John Anster Christian Fitzgerald. Vintage illustration Victorian Era fairy tale design featuring fairies, deer, rabbits, animals and other forest creatures gathering in a meadow. A classic "Fairy Fitzgerald" theme.

Vintage illustration classic children's Mother Goose nursery rhyme featuring a girl dressed in a cute dress and a big bonnet eating food from a bowl. Little Miss Muffet enjoying her picnic lunch at the top of a small hill and the spider dropping down from a tree. Little Miss Muffet Sat on a tuffet, Eating her curds and whey; Along came a spider, Who sat down beside her And frightened Miss Muffet away.

Vintage illustration classic children's fairy tale story book image featuring Country Mouse and City Mouse. The cute mice are dressing in suits and are sharing food, a piece of cheese. The rodents are best friends. From the book Aesop's Fables illustrated by Charles Folkard, 1911.

Vintage illustration fairy tale design featuring Robin Hood and the Men of Greenwood features Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood forest. Little John, Friar Tuck and the minstrel Alan-a-Dale are among the outlaws by NC Wyeth

Vintage illustration classic children's fairy tale image titled "An Immense Dragon Lying by the Waterside" by Jean de Bosschere, 1918. This design features a dragon with a horn on his nose and a royal prince or knight in shining armor with his horse. They have come upon the dangerous dragon in the forest at the river.

Vintage illustration fairy tale design featuring Robin Hood and Maid Marian by NC Wyeth

Vintage illustration fairy tale design featuring Rapunzel with her long hair kidnapped by the witch and kept in the tower.

Vintage illustrations nursery rhymes design featuring Hey Diddle Diddle.

Vintage illustration Mother Goose Nursery Rhyme with children book cover art by Jessie Willcox Smith.

Vintage illustration classic children's nursery rhyme image, Little Bo Peep.

Vintage illustration classic children's nursery rhyme image, Pease Porridge Hot.

Vintage illustration classic children's nursery rhyme image, Georgie Porgie, Puddin' and Pie.

Vintage illustration fairy tales design featuring the witch's house made out of gingerbread and candy.

Vintage illustration classic children's nursery rhyme design featuring Old King Cole.

Vintage illustration children's nursery rhyme design from Sing a Song of Sixpence featuring his royal majesty the King eating his pie surrounded by blackbirds.

Vintage illustration black and white Victorian Era image by Edward Lear. There was an old person of Skye, who waltzed with a Bluebottle fly. A funny, silly, and humorous design featuring two insects dancing.