Art, Symbol & Imagination
A Face in the Smoke: Foreword Ornament
A thin stream of smoke rises from a small lamp and expands into a rounded frame containing a woman’s profile. Fine hatching makes the surrounding air darker than the face. The ornament heads the foreword to The Crucible of Dreams. Its transformation of smoke into a human image gives a compact visual form to the book’s theme of imagination conjuring figures from a vessel.
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Illustrator not identified. "A Face in the Smoke: Foreword Ornament" [editorial title]. In The Crucible of Dreams, Constantine Marrast Perkins. 1911 edition, 1911, Neale Publishing Co.. Source scan leaf 11. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0057-0006
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Illustrator not identified. A Face in the Smoke: Foreword Ornament. The Crucible of Dreams. Scan leaf 11. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0057-0006