In 1812, the Grimm brothers, Jacob and Wilhelm, published Children and Household Tales, a collection German fairy tales. This illustration accompanied the tale Strong Hans. This image is from Grimms Eventyr (Grimm's Fairy Tales) by Carl Ewald, published in 1922. The frontispiece has the illustrations by Philip Grot Johann and R. Leinweber. Johann was a well-known German illustrator and did pieces for Goethe, but he considered his pieces for Grimm's tales very important. He died young and Leinweber succeeded him as illustrator for later editions of the tales. Stong Hans: Robbers steal a mother and her small son. At nine, the son, Hans, makes himself a club and tries to hit the chief of the robbers. The chief slaps the boy down. Hans tries a few years later and beats the robbers. He goes home, gets a, stronger staff, and sets out. He meets a man strong enough to twist trees that he calls Fir-Twister and a giant who can break rocks with his fist that he nicknames Rock-Chopper. They set up house. Two hunt each day and one stays to cook. A little old man beats up two of them when each is alone, but each is ashamed to tell the others. Hans follows him to his underground home where there's an imprisoned princess. Hans kills the dwarf and frees her, but his companions try to kill him, so he stays underground. Hans takes a ring from the slain dwarf's finger that takes him his false companions so he can kill them.