Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Traveller Recoils from the Meal
A seated man raises his hands and turns from a table as pale figures gather in the darkness beyond. One reclining form remains stretched across the lower edge. The adjacent text recounts the traveller’s revulsion and collapse after discovering the nature of the feast.
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Gilbert Gaul. "The Traveller Recoils from the Meal" [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 155. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0282-0148
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Gilbert Gaul. The Traveller Recoils from the Meal. A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder. Scan leaf 155. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0282-0148