Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Creatures Redy and Smaly Had Never Seen
An impossible company of long-limbed figures and bird-like creatures occupies a dark blue landscape. Bright hats, patterned bodies and tiny instruments create a lively rhythm among them. The facing caption emphasises that Redy and Smaly had never seen anything resembling these inhabitants.
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Jean de Bosschere. "The Creatures Redy and Smaly Had Never Seen" [editorial title]. In The City Curious, Jean de Bosschère; illustrated by the author; rendered into English by F. Tennyson Jesse. Supplied illustrated edition from Dodd, Mead & Company; William Heinemann, 1920, Dodd, Mead & Company; William Heinemann. Source scan leaf 63. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0259-0056
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Jean de Bosschere. The Creatures Redy and Smaly Had Never Seen. The City Curious. Scan leaf 63. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0259-0056