Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Butterfly’s Nightmare
Two small fairies hold their arms out beneath tall dandelion heads. A patterned butterfly rests above them while a pale moon lights the green plants. The accompanying story explains that the watchers are ready to catch their butterfly cousin if its seed-ball bed blows apart during a nightmare.
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Dugald Stewart Walker. "The Butterfly’s Nightmare" [editorial title]. In Dream Boats and Other Stories, Written and illustrated by Dugald Stewart Walker. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1920; copyright 1918. Written and illustrated by Dugald Stewart Walker., 1920, Doubleday, Page & Company. Source scan leaf 49. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0378-0043
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Dugald Stewart Walker. The Butterfly’s Nightmare. Dream Boats and Other Stories. Scan leaf 49. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0378-0043