Snowdrop
Snowdrop, illustrated by Charles Robinson Snowdrop or Snow White as most people know it, is another fairy tale from The Big Book of Fairy Tales, published by Blackie & Son, London in 1911. Charles Robinson created seven line drawings (including a decorative capital letter) and one full-page color illustration. It's interesting to note that the artist didn't make any picture of the prince as the rescuer. There is also no scene with the famous glass coffin or the hunter who is ordered to kill the beautiful Snowdrop. The title character actually doesn't really dominate in these pictures. The creator's attention is equally distributed to her, her nemesis, and the dwarfs who got the color illustration all by themselves. The title image above and the decorative one below both portray the main character somehow confined in the moment, maybe seen as a victim of the circumstances. It is by no means her fault that her father remarried a witch, obsessed with her beauty, and...