Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Prisoner among the Sugar-Canes
A thin bearded man in ragged clothes stands among long vertical canes. His tangled hair, bare limbs and fixed stare give the narrow image a distressed presence. The source captions him The Prisoner, while the adjacent text explains the endlessly regrowing sugar-canes he is forced to break.
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Jean de Bosschere. "The Prisoner among the Sugar-Canes" [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 115. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0259-0108
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Jean de Bosschere. The Prisoner among the Sugar-Canes. The City Curious. Scan leaf 115. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0259-0108