Art, Symbol & Imagination
Alone in the Dark Wood
Tall trunks fill the narrow image with closely repeated vertical lines. A small pale woman rests on a flower-covered rise beneath a dark curving branch. The caption places her on a little green patch in the midst of the gloomy wood during her search.
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Kay Nielsen. "Alone in the Dark Wood" [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 39. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/nielsen-dark-wood
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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. Alone in the Dark Wood. East of the Sun and West of the Moon. Scan leaf 39. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/nielsen-dark-wood