Art, Symbol & Imagination
Tom and the Dragonfly in The Water Babies
A small child sits upon a floating leaf beneath an enormous blue dragonfly. Warwick Goble’s frontispiece illustrates the insect described as the king of all the flies.
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Warwick Goble. "Tom and the Dragonfly in The Water Babies" [editorial title]. In The Water Babies, Charles Kingsley; colour illustrations by Warwick Goble. London: Macmillan, 1927; colour illustrations by Warwick Goble., 1927, Macmillan. Source scan leaf 3. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0645-0003
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Warwick Goble. Tom and the Dragonfly in The Water Babies. The Water Babies. Scan leaf 3. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0645-0003