Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Virgin Mary Returns the Children
A dark-robed woman floats within an oval of golden light. Below her, an adult and children stand on pale cloud-like ground. The caption identifies the Virgin Mary returning the children, resolving the loss and secrecy at the centre of The Lassie and Her Godmother.
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Kay Nielsen. "The Virgin Mary Returns the Children" [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 109. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/nielsen-mary-and-children
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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 Virgin Mary Returns the Children. East of the Sun and West of the Moon. Scan leaf 109. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/nielsen-mary-and-children