Swan-Maiden Original Ink Drawing

€1285

Swan-Maiden Original Ink Drawing

100x90 | framed+watercolourink+paper
The Swan Maiden is a mythical creature who shapeshifts from human form to swan form.
The world-wide myth of Swan Maiden has its place in Scandinavian mythology. The main features of the myth are that the hero of the tale sees birds — swans, geese, or ducks — flying to a lake, where, doffing their feather dresses or wings, they become beautiful maidens, usually of a supernatural kind. Stealing up to their dresses, he takes one of them, and its owner is now in his power and becomes his wife. But long after, because she regains her dress or because her husband breaks a taboo concerning her, she flies away.

The Swan-Maiden artwork is part of the exhibition NEW NORDIC FASHION ILLUSTRATION VOL 2 taking place at the Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design
23.05.–27.09.2015.

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