Artist: Jiri Trnka
Description: Illustration for Andersen's 'The Emperor's Nightingale'
Date: 1912
Jiri Trnka (combined technique, 1912).
Compare the black (four-fingered) figure here with the two
"black things" [*]
in the illustration identified as figure 36: 'Betty and an Elder look on as
good and evil forces fight for a dying man's soul,' in The Watchers II
by Raymond E.Fowler (Wild Flower Press, 1995).
[*] Description by Betty Luca: "..two
black thin things with no features or anything, just like long arms and skinny
bodies and a head and some legs..."
