Pandora & The Forbidden Box

A beautiful and compelling image from Greek mythology depicting Pandora and her forbidden box. Perhaps the original story of the temptation of evil, this myth has several different versions but all tell of the same basic conflict of evil and hope. This and a number of other mythology-related drawings were done by Walter Crane (1845-1915) for inclusion in the 1892 publication Wonder Book for Girls & Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Pandora & The Forbidden Box

This image is copyright free and in the public domain anywhere that extends copyrights 70 years after death or at least 120 years after publication when the original illustrator is unknown.