Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Reluctant Mirrors
Tiny winged figures stand and peer between large dark berries and densely veined leaves. Fine black lines pack the page with repeating fruit, wings and curling stems. The story imagines fruits veiling their glossy skins after fairies mistake them for mirrors.
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Dugald Stewart Walker. "The Reluctant Mirrors" [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 55. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0378-0049
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Dugald Stewart Walker. The Reluctant Mirrors. Dream Boats and Other Stories. Scan leaf 55. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0378-0049