THE PIED PIPER

BY J. E. CHRISTIE

Image is of many young children surrounding a man playing a pipe Most of the children are looking up at him with heads tilted They are standing in a clearing of a forest with relatively bare trees leaves are spread across the ground The piper is wearing dark clothing and a fur trimmed hat His head is bent down and looking at two children in front of him His body divides the image in half vertically One of these children is a young boy and the other is a baby The infant is swaddled and attached to the boys shoulder Both of them are looking at the piper A young girl is to the left of this boy she is wearing dark clothing and a headdress She is looking away from the piper to the right and out into the forest In the background behind her three dark birds are flying overhead To the mans left side is a young girl wearing dark clothing and a light headdress Her head is tilted towards the piper she also has a smile on her face The toddler beside her is wearing a light coloured dress The child is barefoot and is carrying an instrument in their right hand The image is horizontally displayed

MLA citation:

Christie, J. E. “The Pied Piper.” The Yellow Book, vol. 8, 1896, p. 299. Yellow Book Digital Edition, edited by Dennis Denisoff and Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, 2011-2014. The Yellow Nineties 2.0, Ryerson University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2020, https://1890s.ca/yb8-christie-pied/

magazine_images The Yellow Book 8 The Pied Piper J. E. Christie 1896 Oil Painting Illustration Swan Electric Engraving Pipe (musical), Hat, Fur, and Tree Human Figure, Male Figure/ Man, Child Figure, Legend, and Headdress 1890s and Late medieval Outdoor setting, Exterior, Tree, Woods/ forest, Bird, and Clearing