Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Dwellers at the Gates of Silent Memory
Dark birds perch among curling branches above a pale seated figure and a low animal-like body. Long suspended forms and small faces thicken the surrounding space. The original caption identifies the drawing and notes that its reproduction appeared by permission of Thomas Lumsden.
Read the source pageLoading your collection…
Citation
Austin Osman Spare. "The Dwellers at the Gates of Silent Memory" [editorial title]. In The Book of Pleasure, Austin Osman Spare. Complete historical pages of The Book of Pleasure (Self-Love): The Psychology of Ecstasy (1913), reproduced within From the Inferno to Zos, Volume1 (First Impressions,1993). Four preliminary pages and60historical pages, including Ernest H.R.Collings’s introduction and the original printer colophon. Supplied custom cover; not a direct scan of an established1913physical copy., 1993, First Impressions. Source scan leaf 50. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0373-0050
Source details
Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
Descriptive title supplied for the visually reviewed historical illustration. The surrounding book presents the original author's interpretation.
Sources
From the book
The Book of PleasureAustin Osman Spare1993More from this book
The Death Posture: Spare’s Frontispiece
The Ascension of the Ego from Ecstasy to Ecstasy
Emanations of the EgoRelated illustrations
Cite this illustration
Austin Osman Spare. The Dwellers at the Gates of Silent Memory. The Book of Pleasure. Scan leaf 50. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0373-0050