Vintage Fairy Tale Pics

Free Images of Ali Baba and 40 Thieves Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves is one of the three most popular fairy tales from Arabian Nights (1001 Nights), which are also the most controversial due to their vague origin. A lot of scholars believe they were actually written by Gallimard, who was supposed to collect and translate traditional tales. It's not our intention to discover the truth about the Ali Baba's authorship. We will only enjoy, as far as we know, the largest collection of Public Doman color images from Ali Baba and Forty Thieves. If you are familiar with the story, you already expect a lot of depictions of the thieves' den and Morgiana's fatal dance. Let's start! Frank Adams (1871-1944) Ali Baba and 40 Thieves features one of the most powerful female characters in the fairy world. While she is not even mentioned in the title, she actively helps her master and even saves him and his family's lives.  Morgiana is pulling boiled oil over the hidden robbers. Th...

Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp; Free Pictures You may know this fairy tale under many different titles: Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, Aladdin and His Magic Lamp, History of Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp, or simply Aladdin. In each case, we are dealing with a fairy tale from Arabian Nights (1001 Nights), a classic story with a controversial background. Some scholars, for instance, believe it never belonged to the corpus of fairy tales from Arabian Nights (just like Ali Baba and 40 Thieves) and was inserted by Antoine Galland because he saw its commercial potential in the popularity of Arabian Nights. Some even believe he wrote it by himself. Everybody can see that something is definitely off with Aladdin which is set in China, not in Persia or some of the Arabian countries like the rest of the stories from the collection. Anyway, it's a great story that inspired countless artists from Andersen's first fairy tale Tinderbox to Disney's blockbusters, and, of course, many ill...