Art, Symbol & Imagination
Two Storks and an Encircling Serpent
Two long-legged birds stand together above a small town within a round border formed by a serpent. One bird bends towards the other, creating a compact repeated curve. Bayley reproduces the printer’s device in his discussion of piety, ancestry and symbolic imagery.
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Illustrator not identified. "Two Storks and an Encircling Serpent" [editorial title]. In The Lost Language of Symbolism, Volume I, Harold Bayley. London: Williams and Norgate, 1912; Volume I; Central Archaeological Library, New Delhi copy., 1912, Williams and Norgate. Source scan leaf 25. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0448-0025
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Illustrator not identified. Two Storks and an Encircling Serpent. The Lost Language of Symbolism, Volume I. Scan leaf 25. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0448-0025