Art, Symbol & Imagination
Winged Figure with Sword and Shield
A slender crowned figure stands beneath two immense dark wings with a sword in one hand and a shield in the other. The nearly symmetrical body is enclosed within a fine rectangular frame. Artzybasheff’s emblem introduces the collection’s recurring imagery of mortality and ritual.
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Boris Artzybasheff. "Winged Figure with Sword and Shield" [editorial title]. In The Undertaker's Garland, John Peale Bishop and Edmund Wilson, Jr.; decorations by Boris Artzybasheff. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1922. The volume separately lists each writer’s contributions and credits Boris Artzybasheff’s decorations., 1922, Alfred A. Knopf. Source scan leaf 10. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/artzybasheff-undertaker-winged-figure
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
Complete original page and unchanged thumbnail from the existing cleared Reader. Title-page credit, contribution allocation and complete Wilson preface visually inspected. No illustration list was used to identify this uncaptioned figure, and it is not identified as Lucifer. No whole-book review claimed.
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Boris Artzybasheff. Winged Figure with Sword and Shield. The Undertaker's Garland. Scan leaf 10. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/artzybasheff-undertaker-winged-figure