Art, Symbol & Imagination
The City Curious
Original caption: The City Curious
Small travellers cross a high platform above a city of brightly coloured towers, domes and striped roofs. A hanging dark plant and a rounded foreground form deepen the improbable perspective. The illustration introduces the strange built environment encountered by Redy and Smaly in The City Curious.
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Jean de Bosschère. "The City Curious" [source caption]. In The City Curious, Jean de Bosschère; illustrated by the author; rendered into English by F. Tennyson Jesse. Supplied illustrated edition from Dodd, Mead & Company; William Heinemann, 1920, Dodd, Mead & Company; William Heinemann. Source scan leaf 39. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/bosschere-city-curious
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Jean de Bosschère. The City Curious. The City Curious. Scan leaf 39. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/bosschere-city-curious