Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Athaleb and the Travellers in the Water
A man and woman cling beside a great winged creature amid breaking water. Its neck rises above them while one broad wing cuts across the sky. The caption records the instant when all of them are in the water together during their escape.
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Gilbert Gaul. "The Athaleb and the Travellers in the Water" [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 279. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0282-0272
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Gilbert Gaul. The Athaleb and the Travellers in the Water. A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder. Scan leaf 279. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0282-0272