This image is sourced from chapter 5 of Maria Dinah Craik's version of The Lame Little Prince and his Travelling Cloak, which was uploaded on Cove. The image depicts Prince Dolor flying through the open air outside his tower in his traveling cloak, wearing his newly acquired pair of glasses.
The image relates to both flying and the use of prosthetics as both the cloak and the glasses serve as prosthetics used to aid the prince in terms of both mobility and visual function. Additionally, through the combined use of multiple prosthetics, Dolors is able to achieve a better quality of life than if he were to only have one of these devices individually.
This particular image resonates with Hingston’s article “Fairy-Tale Bodies: Prostheses and Narrative Perspective in Dinah Mulock Craik’s The Little Lame Prince” as far as its interpretation of how prosthetics, such as those depicted here and the ears he is gifted later, are utilized as means of making the Prince aware of his differences, offering him independence, and eradicating his disabilities through their use. For example, the quote “though he tried to find them out by recalling any pictures he had seen of them [...] and though it was pleasant enough to admire them as brilliant patches of color, still he would have liked to examine them all” demonstrates how his glasses in combination with the flying cloak can help him experience the world in a way that was only previously possible through images because of the limitations of his disabilities. (COVE, Chapter V).
Moreover, the glasses themselves appear similar to aviation/flying goggles used to protect pilots' eyes from wind, the elements, and debris when flying in more modern, uncovered, high-speed vehicles. An example of such goggles includes AN-6530 Goggles, which were used by American flight forces during World War II (“Goggles, Flying”).