Art, Symbol & Imagination
Bare Trees against the Evening Glow
Bare trees spread dark branching silhouettes across an orange-red sky. Their forms are repeated in the still water below. Severn reduces the scene to the contrast between the wooded bank and its glowing background in this plate from Corelli’s illustrated fantasy.
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Arthur Severn. "Bare Trees against the Evening Glow" [editorial title]. In The Devil's Motor: A Fantasy, Marie Corelli. 1910 edition, 1910, Hodder & Stoughton. Source scan leaf 78. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0177-0078
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Arthur Severn. Bare Trees against the Evening Glow. The Devil's Motor: A Fantasy. Scan leaf 78. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0177-0078