Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Boat and the Enormous Bird
A man braces a firearm against the side of a small boat. Its flash illuminates a great long-necked creature rising from the water. Gaul makes the difference in scale between traveller and animal the focus of this encounter in the unknown world.
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Gilbert Gaul. "The Boat and the Enormous Bird" [editorial title]. In A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder, Author not named on supplied title page; illustrations by Gilbert Gaul. 1888 Harper & Brothers illustrated printing; title page does not name the author, 1888, Harper & Brothers. Source scan leaf 73. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0282-0067
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Gilbert Gaul. The Boat and the Enormous Bird. A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder. Scan leaf 73. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0282-0067