Virginia Frances Sterrett

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French Fairy Tales

Kay Nielsen

Fairy Tale Illustrations

Golden Age Of Illustration

Fairytale Illustration

Old French Fairy Tales

Virginia Frances Sterrett's illustrations for Old French Fairy Tales

an illustration of a woman in red and white sitting on a black and white checkered floor

Tanglewood Tales Art and Illustrations - Virginia Frances Sterrett Art Prints

Virginia Frances Sterrett

Islamic Golden Age

Sinbad The Sailor

1001 Arabian Nights

One Thousand And One Nights

The Arabian Nights

Thousand And One Nights

1001 Nights

Arabian Nights Art and Illustrations - Virginia Frances Sterrett Art Prints

The Fifth Voyage of Sinbad the Sailor: They Stopped to Gather Fruit - Virginia Frances Sterrett The Oral Tradition of the Arabian Nights The Arabian Nights, the stories we know as the Thousand and One Nights are very old, having existed in their present form as early as the 13th century and many of them were told, by some accounts, as early as the 9th century. The were passed on in an oral tradition, but unlike European folklore, they were most likely passed on as true histories. This is bec