Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Terrible Mud
Dark figures stand or crouch beside a steep bank while great shafts of light break through the clouds. Small pale circles punctuate the black forms. The caption The Terrible Mud accompanies the narrator’s account of being left unburied among the things abandoned by the tide.
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S. H. Sime. "The Terrible Mud" [editorial title]. In A Dreamer's Tales, Lord Dunsany; illustrations by S. H. Sime. Undated Boston illustrated edition, undated edition, John W. Luce & Company. Source scan leaf 65. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0250-0055
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S. H. Sime. The Terrible Mud. A Dreamer's Tales. Scan leaf 65. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0250-0055