Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Dreamer and the Smoking Urn
A seated, reclining man occupies the lower left of a verse border, facing a vessel whose smoke rises into a crowded field of small faces. Curling forms join the upper ornament to the figure below. The page belongs to the opening of The Crucible of Dreams. Its border makes the act of looking into the urn continue around the words, so that reading and visual reverie share the same frame.
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Illustrator not identified. "The Dreamer and the Smoking Urn" [editorial title]. In The Crucible of Dreams, Constantine Marrast Perkins. 1911 edition, 1911, Neale Publishing Co.. Source scan leaf 18. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0057-0012
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The Crucible of DreamsConstantine Marrast Perkins1911More from this book
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Illustrator not identified. The Dreamer and the Smoking Urn. The Crucible of Dreams. Scan leaf 18. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0057-0012