Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Sea and the Blue Veil
A pale woman rises from the sea with a great blue cloth streaming around her head and shoulders. Long folds echo the curves of the surrounding waves. The allegorical plate belongs to Robinson’s sequence for The Song of the Cities within Kipling’s collection.
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W. Heath Robinson. "The Sea and the Blue Veil" [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 179. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0410-0172
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W. Heath Robinson. The Sea and the Blue Veil. A Song of the English. Scan leaf 179. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0410-0172