Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Small People Whirled into the Sky
Tiny dark flying forms scatter across a wide landscape beneath clouds and a bright opening near the horizon. The caption states that the small people whirled up into the sky. Their minute scale makes the atmosphere seem immense, with rivers or inlets and distant buildings held far below. Bridgman-Metchim uses the open landscape to give the supernatural movement a sense of height and distance.
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D. Bridgman-Metchim. "The Small People Whirled into the Sky" [editorial title]. In Atlantis: The Book of the Angels, D. Bridgman-Metchim. Cheap edition, 1903 scan, 1903, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Limited. Source scan leaf 360. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0064-0360
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D. Bridgman-Metchim. The Small People Whirled into the Sky. Atlantis: The Book of the Angels. Scan leaf 360. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0064-0360