A fairy in a flowing pink dress dances along a single thread strung between tall grasses, her arms raised, above a spider's web. To her right a tiny figure plays on the thread, and a cello stands propped in a rose branch, all against a misty gray-green sky, with seed heads and a daisy dark against it in the foreground. Arthur Rackham painted it for J. M.

Barrie's Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, published by Hodder and Stoughton in London in 1906. The caption quotes Barrie's line that the fairies are exquisite dancers, from the chapter "Lock-out Time," which explains that after the Gardens close, the fairies hold their balls in the open air, in a fairy ring. The book grew out of chapters of Barrie's 1902 book The Little White Bird, which introduced Peter Pan. Rackham's color plates were mounted in the book, each with a guard sheet printed with its caption, and a limited edition of 500 signed copies appeared as well.

The Free Library of Philadelphia counts it among his most successful books, and Harvard's Houghton Library also holds a group of his drawings for it. Our copy is the 1906 first edition. It is in the Houghton Library at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.