Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Bearskin Lad and the Princess
A young man in a great pale bearskin sits close beside a richly dressed princess. An immense dark tree and fine vertical lines rise behind their small enclosed seat. The caption identifies the lad in the bear’s skin and the King of Arabia’s daughter in the collection of northern tales.
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Kay Nielsen. "The Bearskin Lad and the Princess" [editorial title]. In East of the Sun and West of the Moon, Collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe; English versions by George Webbe Dasent; illustrated by Kay Nielsen. Undated New York illustrated edition, undated edition, George H. Doran Company. Source scan leaf 69. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/nielsen-bearskin-lad
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
Descriptive Gallery title. Complete source page with original caption and margins retained. No recolouring, reconstruction or invented symbolic meaning.
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East of the Sun and West of the MoonCollected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe; English versions by George Webbe Dasent; illustrated by Kay NielsenUndated editionMore from this book
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Kay Nielsen. The Bearskin Lad and the Princess. East of the Sun and West of the Moon. Scan leaf 69. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/nielsen-bearskin-lad