Art, Symbol & Imagination
Hands among the symbolic marks: Paper Marks
Open hands recur across Plate III among crosses, birds, hearts and crowned shields. The specimens vary in cuffs, fingers and attached initials. Their shared page lets a familiar motif be compared across different paper marks, while Pott’s surrounding argument supplies the proposed secret-society connection.
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Illustrator not identified. "Hands among the symbolic marks: Paper Marks" [editorial title]. In Francis Bacon and His Secret Society, Constance Mary Pott. 1891, S. Low, Marston. Source scan leaf 379. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0028-0379
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Illustrator not identified. Hands among the symbolic marks: Paper Marks. Francis Bacon and His Secret Society. Scan leaf 379. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0028-0379