Art, Symbol & Imagination
Oberon above the Sleeping Titania
A dark-haired winged figure hovers beside a sleeping woman in a pale yellow dress. Flowers and delicate leaves make the sleeper’s bed seem suspended in the air. The caption quotes Oberon’s instruction that Titania wake when something vile comes near in Shakespeare’s comedy.
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Warwick Goble. "Oberon above the Sleeping Titania" [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 133. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/goble-guarding-a-sleeper
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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. Oberon above the Sleeping Titania. The Book of Fairy Poetry. Scan leaf 133. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/goble-guarding-a-sleeper