Art, Symbol & Imagination
Pharos Offers the Drink before the Sphinx
An elderly man offers a small vessel to his companion below the immense face of the Sphinx. A dark-robed figure stands farther back in the sand. The adjoining episode places Forrester under Pharos’s direction before the strange vision that follows.
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John H. Bacon. "Pharos Offers the Drink before the Sphinx" [editorial title]. In Pharos, the Egyptian, Guy Boothby; illustrations by John H. Bacon. 1899 edition, 1899, Ward, Lock & Co. Limited. Source scan leaf 197. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0456-0193
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John H. Bacon. Pharos Offers the Drink before the Sphinx. Pharos, the Egyptian. Scan leaf 197. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0456-0193