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You ought to be ashamed of yourself!
William Wallace Denslow, from “The wonderful wizard of Oz” by Lyman Frank Baum, Chicago, New York: 1900 #illustration #art #ChildrensBook www.oldbookillustrations.com/illustrat… (via @oldbookillustrations@mastodon.social)

Illustration in a blue-bordered frame of a woodland scene from *The Wonderful Wizard of Oz*. Tall trees with blue-shaded bark rise against a pale blue sky. A yellow brick road runs through the foreground. Dorothy, a young girl with long braids, wears a blue gingham dress and white shoes and carries a yellow woven basket on her arm. She looks up at the Cowardly Lion and points at him. The lion is large and golden-yellow, with a shaggy mane and a tearful, worried expression, and he raises a paw to his face. Toto, a small brown shaggy dog, stands on the road in the lower left. In the background on the left, the silver Tin Woodman stands smiling among the grass, with a small oil can lying near his feet. In the lower right, the Scarecrow lies sprawled across the brick road in blue clothing, his stitched face turned upward and straw showing at his hands and neck. A small signature, reading "Den," appears in the lower left corner.
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