Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Ceremony beside the Bier
A reclining body lies on a raised bier beneath sparse palm-like trees. A standing officiant lifts a blade while attendants wait nearby. The surrounding account of the ceremony places Gaul’s image within the narrator’s horror at the Kosekin’s treatment of death.
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Gilbert Gaul. "The Ceremony beside the Bier" [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 143. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0282-0136
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Gilbert Gaul. The Ceremony beside the Bier. A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder. Scan leaf 143. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0282-0136