“Please,” she said, “I want to be a nightingale”

Edmund Dulac, 1882-1953

1910

Photographic reproduction of watercolor.

Source: “The Bird of Shadows and the Sun-Bird” in Stowell's Fairies I have met, frontispiece

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Formatting and text by George P. Landow

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