Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Nautilus Boat
A winged fairy sits in a great purple nautilus shell with long curved spines. Pale fabric and curling lines rise above the boat while its reflection trembles in the green water. The caption names the nautilus as the fairy’s vessel in the sea-shore poem.
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Warwick Goble. "The Nautilus Boat" [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 157. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/goble-nautilus-boat
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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. The Nautilus Boat. The Book of Fairy Poetry. Scan leaf 157. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/goble-nautilus-boat