Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Princess Removes the Wig
A small pale figure bends beside an immense curved white bed beneath a hanging lamp. A patterned figure kneels at the left edge of the dark interior. The caption describes the princess whisking off the lad’s wig and recognising the beauty she had seen in the morning sun.
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Kay Nielsen. "The Princess Removes the Wig" [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 199. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/nielsen-wig-removed
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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 Princess Removes the Wig. East of the Sun and West of the Moon. Scan leaf 199. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/nielsen-wig-removed