Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Figure below the Great Window
A seated young figure lowers his head beneath a tall stone-framed window with an oval lock. A cobra-like form, hanging cords and a shadowy tree occupy the dark interior. Smith surrounds the body with symbolic barriers and watchful shapes in the visual world of Hecht’s novel.
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Wallace Smith. "The Figure below the Great Window" [editorial title]. In Fantazius Mallare: A Mysterious Oath, Ben Hecht; drawings by Wallace Smith. 1922 supplied edition, 1922, Covici-McGee. Source scan leaf 67. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0269-0059
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
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Wallace Smith. The Figure below the Great Window. Fantazius Mallare: A Mysterious Oath. Scan leaf 67. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0269-0059