Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Torn Web Fell: Helen Revealed
A pale-robed woman faces a warrior whose round shield dominates the foreground. Fine hanging threads and patterned walls surround the meeting. The chapter The Shadow in the Sunlight identifies the falling web as Helen’s last veil before Odysseus.
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Maurice Greiffenhagen. "The Torn Web Fell: Helen Revealed" [editorial title]. In The World's Desire, H. Rider Haggard and Andrew Lang; illustrations by Maurice Greiffenhagen. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1894; new edition with twenty-seven illustrations from drawings by Maurice Greiffenhagen., 1894, Longmans, Green, and Co.. Source scan leaf 205. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0450-0205
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Maurice Greiffenhagen. The Torn Web Fell: Helen Revealed. The World's Desire. Scan leaf 205. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0450-0205