Two dancers in elaborate costumes sweep across a lawn at night, one in a checkered gown with tiers of ruffles, the other in a yellow cloak scattered with stars, trailing strings of jewels. Women in patterned robes watch from both sides with baskets of flowers, a small harpist sits at lower left, and dark cypresses rise against a deep blue sky. The artist's signature is at upper right. Harry Clarke drew it for Hans Christian Andersen's "The Garden of Paradise" in Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, published by George G.

Harrap in London in 1916. The East Wind carries a prince to the Garden of Paradise, where the Fairy warns him that every evening she will beckon to him and he must not follow. The plate's caption is her cry, "Now we will begin our dances!" That very first evening, the prince forgets his promise and follows her. Clarke, a Dublin-born stained-glass artist, was 24 when Harrap commissioned the book in 1913, and it launched his career as an illustrator; Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination followed in 1919.

The National Gallery of Ireland, which owns eleven of his drawings for it, says the book was published to great acclaim. It first appeared from George G. Harrap in London in 1916.