Hockney made a series of thirty-nine etchings to illustrate a group of Brothers Grimm fairy tales. This one, designed for “The Boy Who Left Home to Learn Fear,” communicates in spare terms the thrust of a story about leaving the security of a familiar place to explore an outside world. Here Hockney focuses on the space between indoors and outdoors, allowing the window to open the scene visually and thematically to an unknown place beyond the limits of the page and comforts of home.