This princess sees her lover in the water, not herself. But this image clearly plays with ideas about narcissistic identification.
Dalziel after Arthur Hughes, ‘On the Water’, illustration for George Macdonald, Dealings with the Fairies (London: Alexander Strahan, 1867). Dalziel Archive Vol. XXI (1866), British Museum reg. no. 1913,0415.182, print no. 869.
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