Andersen’s tales in this collection are illustrated by the “official” Andersen illustrators, i. e., the Danish artists chosen by Andersen to illustrate the collected Danish editions of his tales: The naval officer Lieutenant Vilhelm Pedersen (1820-59), who illustrated the 1849 edition (45 tales, 125 illustrations) and continued to illustrate Andersen’s work for the next ten years, and Lorenz Frølich (1820-1908), who illustrated Andersen’s work between 1867 and 1874. See also the chapter “Hans Christian Andersen and his Illustrators”, in Fairy Tales From Hans Christian Andersen—A Classic Illustrated Edition, Russel Ash and Bernard Higton (eds.), Chronicle Books, 1992.
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