Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Lad in Battle
A mounted warrior raises his weapon above a dense field of round shields and crossed spears. Black smoke and red linear accents drive the action across the pale ground. Captioned The Lad in Battle, the plate transforms the fairy-tale hero’s combat into an elaborate ornamental clash.
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Kay Nielsen. "The Lad in Battle" [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 209. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/nielsen-lad-in-battle
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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 Lad in Battle. East of the Sun and West of the Moon. Scan leaf 209. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/nielsen-lad-in-battle