Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Three Beggars and the Peacock Pie
A richly dressed fairy presents a great peacock-topped dish while three plain travellers watch. White flowers and bright leaves fill the foreground around the banquet. The caption replaces a crust with a peacock pie in the fairy hospitality of The Three Beggars.
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Warwick Goble. "The Three Beggars and the Peacock Pie" [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 105. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/goble-peacock-pie
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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 Three Beggars and the Peacock Pie. The Book of Fairy Poetry. Scan leaf 105. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/goble-peacock-pie