Art, Symbol & Imagination
Follow After: The Song of the Dead
Two dark-clothed figures recline on low floating supports between immense blue-grey cliffs. Pale sunset light reaches along the channel towards them. The illustration list links the frontispiece to the waiting voices in Kipling’s The Song of the Dead.
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W. Heath Robinson. "Follow After: The Song of the Dead" [editorial title]. In A Song of the English, Rudyard Kipling; illustrated by W. Heath Robinson. New York: Doubleday, Page & Company; undated title, copyright leaf dated 1909; illustrated by W. Heath Robinson., undated edition, Doubleday, Page & Company. Source scan leaf 8. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0410-0002
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W. Heath Robinson. Follow After: The Song of the Dead. A Song of the English. Scan leaf 8. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0410-0002