Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Infanta and Her Birthday Companions
The Infanta stands among richly dressed children beneath a hanging canopy and dense foliage. Her enormous patterned train curves across the foreground towards small decorative objects. Kutcher gives the court’s ceremonial elegance a deliberately crowded, theatrical setting.
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Ben Kutcher. "The Infanta and Her Birthday Companions" [editorial title]. In A House of Pomegranates, Oscar Wilde. Ben Kutcher's illustrated1918 edition, with H. L. Mencken introduction and additional Wilde tales; Library of Congress copy, Internet Archive benkutchersillus00wild, 1918, Moffat, Yard and Company. Source scan leaf 197. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0368-0168
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Ben Kutcher. The Infanta and Her Birthday Companions. A House of Pomegranates. Scan leaf 197. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0368-0168