Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Horse’s Warning
A dark horse carries an elaborately dressed rider beneath diagonal bands of light. A fantastic castle and curling vegetation crowd the space behind them. The caption records the horse warning its rider to look behind him during the fairy-tale trial.
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Kay Nielsen. "The Horse’s Warning" [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 189. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/nielsen-horses-warning
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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 Horse’s Warning. East of the Sun and West of the Moon. Scan leaf 189. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/nielsen-horses-warning