In 1860-1 when Georgiana Burne-Jones and Elizabeth Siddal planned to collaborate on an illustrated book of folk tales, Georgie produced some woodcut designs before the project was abandoned owing to Siddal's death.
One of the surviving designs is this illustration to story of Rumplestiltskin, from what the Burne-Joneses referred to punningly as [W]Holy Grim[m]. The girl stitching is captive while the grotesque creature on the left spins straw into gold, in exchange for her necklace, ring and finally her firstborn. Eventually she outwits him by discovering his strange name.
At first I didn't identify this as the Rumplestiltskin tale, as the demonic creature looks witchlike, and there's no visible straw. But there is gold in the basket and Rumplestiltskin is plying a distaff rather than a spinning wheel as in most illustrations.
There is one print of the image, among Georgie's correspondence in the National Art Library with a letter dated December 1897. And I'm pleased to have found its title at last.
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