Art, Symbol & Imagination
Kilmeny and the Deer
A pale-robed woman stands among slender trees with deer gathered around her. Her lowered hand and their inclined heads make the encounter unusually gentle. Goble’s caption quotes the deer cowering beneath Kilmeny’s lily hand from the poem printed around the plate.
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Warwick Goble. "Kilmeny and the Deer" [editorial title]. In The Book of Fairy Poetry, Edited by Dora Owen; illustrated by Warwick Goble. Inspected Longmans1920 anthology edited by Dora Owen, with Warwick Goble illustrations, contents, list of coloured plates and concluding poems. All contributions belong to the historical published anthology., 1920, Longmans, Green and Co.. Source scan leaf 35. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/goble-deer-in-the-wood
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
Complete historical source page; editorial descriptive title. Original colours, marks, margins and captions retained.
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Warwick Goble. Kilmeny and the Deer. The Book of Fairy Poetry. Scan leaf 35. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/goble-deer-in-the-wood