Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar
SnakTattered but still lovely
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12wonderY
This is an old story that I just vaguely remembered until I started researching Stephen Gammell. I ordered a handful of his books from the library, and this was one of them.
He did a black and white version:
The story is an old English tale, and it is quite stupid. Mr. Vinegar goes off trading one thing for another, but he always trades down. The enchanting concept, for me, was that they lived in a pickle jar.
So I went searching for the half-remembered image that pleased me so much.
There are three versions of the story here on LT.
A Welsh author, Euan Cooper-Willis, told it a while back, and copies can be quite dear, and a good cover image can't be found:
This may be the one I recall, but I thought the jar/bottle was bigger and clear.
Flora Annie Steel is another collector of these tales, and I may have this in a collection I own. But the single tale was also published by itself. This is the picture on the cover, and it is by Arthur Rackham:
Yes, their home is called 'Piccalilli Cottage.'
It appears that children's magazines have used the tale over the years, and that might be what I'm remembering. I'll post more images again later.
He did a black and white version:
The story is an old English tale, and it is quite stupid. Mr. Vinegar goes off trading one thing for another, but he always trades down. The enchanting concept, for me, was that they lived in a pickle jar.
So I went searching for the half-remembered image that pleased me so much.
There are three versions of the story here on LT.
A Welsh author, Euan Cooper-Willis, told it a while back, and copies can be quite dear, and a good cover image can't be found:
This may be the one I recall, but I thought the jar/bottle was bigger and clear.
Flora Annie Steel is another collector of these tales, and I may have this in a collection I own. But the single tale was also published by itself. This is the picture on the cover, and it is by Arthur Rackham:
Yes, their home is called 'Piccalilli Cottage.'
It appears that children's magazines have used the tale over the years, and that might be what I'm remembering. I'll post more images again later.
22wonderY
I love the detail and the color in Rackham's illustration. I do have English Fairy Tales, and it has this and one more illustration. There are possibly more he painted for this story, but all I'm finding is one inconsequential B&W.
I delight in Stephen Gammell's Appalachian depictions in some other books, but his drawings here don't really satisfy. Appears no one else treasures them either, as I can't find any interiors of his book. His pickle jar, though is a nice old-fashioned one shaped like a crock and with a fitted lid.
This is the closest I can find to describe it:
It's a nice size and has a door and steps up to it.
I delight in Stephen Gammell's Appalachian depictions in some other books, but his drawings here don't really satisfy. Appears no one else treasures them either, as I can't find any interiors of his book. His pickle jar, though is a nice old-fashioned one shaped like a crock and with a fitted lid.
This is the closest I can find to describe it:
It's a nice size and has a door and steps up to it.
42wonderY
This looks interesting, but certainly not available at my library and possibly not at abebooks either:
The author/illustrator is not found on LT either.
The author/illustrator is not found on LT either.
52wonderY
Ah! Here is Rackham's depiction of the accidental breaking of the pickle jar, and the full text of the story:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/English_Fairy_Tales/Mr._Vinegar
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/English_Fairy_Tales/Mr._Vinegar
62wonderY
As I mentioned, children's magazines have published the story.
Here is one by Storytime Magazine:
Here is one by Storytime Magazine:
82wonderY
Just to be complete, I'll show one by Faith Walker (apparently not the correct person), though it's almost as silly as the story:
92wonderY
Herbert Cole illustrated Fairy Gold more than a century ago:
I like it!
Oh my! Google his name and look at the image collection!
I like it!
Oh my! Google his name and look at the image collection!
102wonderY
And I'm going to wrap up my survey with a lovely vintage illustration offered from an etsy store:
11MrsLee
I don't think I have ever heard of Mr. and Mrs. Vinegar, but Victor Borge told a wonderful version of "Papa's always Right" by Hans Christian Anderson on a children's album that I listened to again and again when I was young. It is rather the antithesis of this story I guess, because in the end, all of Papa's terrible bargaining and such earns him a kiss from his wife, rather than a beating.
122wonderY
By the way, I'm doing a thread dedicated to Stephen Gammell in another group. It's way too quiet over there. Can I recruit some picture lovers to come and play over there too?
http://www.librarything.com/groups/picturebooks
http://www.librarything.com/groups/picturebooks
13fuzzi
>10 2wonderY: that one looks like it came from a Mother Goose treasury!
Nice illustrations, but the story is new to me.
Nice illustrations, but the story is new to me.