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<n>The Mermaid</n>, a 1910 painting by American artist <n>Howard Pyle</n>.

<n>They were three months passing through the forest</n>, an illustration by <n>Virginia Frances Sterrett</n> for the 1920 book <n>Old French Fairytales</n>.

<n>On the Stage</n> (c. 1876–77), an <n>Impressionist</n> pastel by <n>Edgar Degas</n>.

<n>Rosalie's Tree</n> (1920), an illustration by <n>Virginia Frances Sterrett</n> from <n>Old French Fairy Tales</n>.

‘They brought along with them a great many beautiful shells’ by Nathaniel Hawthorne from Tanglewood Tales (1921)

Frontispiece illustration from the 1916 book <n>Philippine Folk Tales</n> by <n>Mabel Cook Cole</n>.