John Dickson Batten
'Snowdrop and the seven little men', 1897
'Snowdrop and the seven little men', 1897
Arthur Rackham
It was the middle of winter, and the snowflakes were falling
from the sky like feathers. Now, a Queen sat sewing at a window
framed in black ebony, and as she sewed she looked out upon
the snow. Suddenly she pricked her finger and three drops of
blood fell on to the snow. And the red looked so lovely on the
white that she thought to herself: ‘If only I had a child as white
as snow and as red as blood, and as black as the wood of the
window frame!’ Soon after, she had a daughter, whose hair was
black as ebony, while her cheeks were red as blood, and her
skin as white as snow; so she was called Snowdrop...
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