SNOW WHITE
ALTERNATIVE ILLUSTRATIONS

ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE DISGUISED QUEEN/PEDLAR WOMAN AND THE COMB

Selected by: Kay E. Vandergrift

This page presents one or more Snow White illustrations copied from various editions used in this educational exercise. To preserve copyright law, only one image [within fair-use doctrine] has been used from any one of the books remaining in U.S. and/or British copyright. Every book image has been identified so that, hopefully, the reader will turn to the original for greater clarification and study. The reader should note that scanning of images does not capture the quality of the originals, nor the exact size, and should recognize this in evaluating the illustrations.

VISUAL IMAGES: QUESTIONS AND COMMENTS

The questions or comments below are simply to encourage the user to think about the illustrations; other questions and comments may come to mind that are equally valid. You are encouraged to compare additional editions of Snow White to see how this incident is portrayed.

  1. How do illustrators portray the comb?
  2. Are there differences in the pedlar woman's face and/or costume from those portrayed in the images of previous disguises?
  3. Do particular illustrations push you away or draw you into the composition?

Snow White. Retold by Josephine Poole. Illus. by Angela Barrett. New York: Knopf, 1991.

The full image is 165 K. Please click on this thumbnail to download the complete image. Clicking on the backbutton on the full image page will bring you back to this page.

The Brothers Grimm Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Retold by Sue Kassirer. Illus. by Darcy May. New York: Random House, 1994.

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Snow White. Retold by Clare Rosen. Illus. by Francesca Duffield. London: Marylebone Books, 1985.

The full image is 60 K. Please click on this thumbnail to download the complete image. Clicking on the backbutton on the full image page will bring you back to this page.

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Created January 6, 1997 and is continously revised