Sleeping Children

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Two children are fast asleep as the back wall of their bedroom dissolves into to a dreamworld landscape

Paused for a moment to regard the sleeping children.

Artist

Name:: Robinson, Frederick Cayley
Dates:: 1862-1927
Country:: UK

Illustration

Subject:: Narratives
Technique:: Color Process
Format:: Portrait (taller)
Source:: The New York Public Library, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:: The blue bird: a fairy play in six acts
Author:: Maeterlinck, Maurice
Publisher:: New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1920
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Two children are fast asleep as the back wall of their bedroom dissolves into a dreamworld landscape, with a ship sailing away in the moonlight and flocks of birds darting through the sky.

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