Collected by Dr. Ignácz Kunos, translated from Hungarian by R. Nisbet Bain, illustrated by Celia Levetus

Turkish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales

(Lawrence & Bullen, 1896)

This image illustrates a story called ‘The Wind-Demon’.  Levetus’s quaint designs for the siblings’ clothing and the palace’s lavish interior décor are similar to those seen in fairytale illustrations by Birmingham School lecturer Walter Crane.  They reflect late-Victorian stereotypes of the Middle East.