Art, Symbol & Imagination
Three Spirits on a Wayside Flower
Three winged spirits spring around a tall flowering stem against an almost empty pale field. Pink blossoms and slender stalks echo their airborne gestures. The caption and surrounding Tennyson passage place the joyful meeting before the coming of Guinevere to Camelot.
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Warwick Goble. "Three Spirits on a Wayside Flower" [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 87. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/goble-spirits-on-a-flower
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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. Three Spirits on a Wayside Flower. The Book of Fairy Poetry. Scan leaf 87. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/goble-spirits-on-a-flower