Art, Symbol & Imagination
Undine beneath the Crystal Vault
A pale woman bends at the water’s edge beneath a dark arch of roots and branching forms. Falling water and delicate lines surround her bowed figure. The image accompanies the knight’s dream of Undine and the warning attached to his proposed remarriage.
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Arthur Rackham. "Undine beneath the Crystal Vault" [editorial title]. In Undine, Friedrich de la Motte Fouque; adapted from the German by W. L. Courtney; illustrated by Arthur Rackham. London: William Heinemann; New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1911; second impression, February 1911; adapted by W. L. Courtney, illustrated by Arthur Rackham., 1911, William Heinemann; Doubleday, Page & Co.. Source scan leaf 197. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0444-0197
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Arthur Rackham. Undine beneath the Crystal Vault. Undine. Scan leaf 197. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0444-0197