Art, Symbol & Imagination
The First Mighty Destroyer
A brilliant diagonal streak cuts through storm clouds towards a dark, broken landscape below. Small structures and scattered forms give the devastation a human scale beneath the vast atmospheric movement. The caption describes the reinforcing power of the first mighty destroyer. Bridgman-Metchim makes the destructive force visible through light, cloud and a plunging diagonal rather than through a single clearly bounded figure.
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D. Bridgman-Metchim. "The First Mighty Destroyer" [editorial title]. In Atlantis: The Book of the Angels, D. Bridgman-Metchim. Cheap edition, 1903 scan, 1903, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., Limited. Source scan leaf 455. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0064-0455
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D. Bridgman-Metchim. The First Mighty Destroyer. Atlantis: The Book of the Angels. Scan leaf 455. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0064-0455