The Adventures of Baron Munchausen illlu

The Adventures of Baron Munchausen illlustrated by Alphonse Adolphe Bichard (b. 1841). Caption reads: …my piece of bacon fat had gone through all the ducks without leaving its string, and they were threaded on it like a row of pearls. I advanced joyfully to the brink again, and drew the ducks in. Based on the life of Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Baron (Freiherr) von Münchhausen (11 May 1720 - 22 February 1797) and his fantastical tales. This version is based on the German translation from the English by Gottfried August Bürger in 1786, from Raspes original stories. (Rudolf Erich Raspe (1737-1794), the first author to transcribe Munchausens war stories into a book.). (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)