Content: Zeus and Hermes visit earth disguised as ordinary peasants and are denied hospitality by all but the aged couple Baucis and Philemon. Written on border: "Illus. by W. Crane (Jupiter and Mercury on their way to visit Philemon and Baucis)".
Source Note: Wonder book for girls boys. With 60 designs by Walter Crane. (Boston Houghton Mifflin 1910) Crane, Walter (1845-1915), Illustrator. Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864), Author.

Physical Description

Chromolithographs
Extent: 19.5 x 12.6 cm

Identifiers

Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): e21b1530-c5be-012f-577a-58d385a7bc34

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Type Of Resource

Still Image

Date Issued

1892

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "The strangers in the village" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1892. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/e21b1530-c5be-012f-577a-58d385a7bc34

APA format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1892). The strangers in the village Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/e21b1530-c5be-012f-577a-58d385a7bc34

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "The strangers in the village" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 7, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/e21b1530-c5be-012f-577a-58d385a7bc34

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