Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Dying Saloon-Keeper and the Apparitions
A pale man shrinks back on his bed while formally dressed and grotesque figures crowd the room. The caption identifies a saloon-keeper confronting Satan and his imps within the book’s moralizing deathbed story.
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Illustrator not identified. "The Dying Saloon-Keeper and the Apparitions" [editorial title]. In Sermons by the Devil, William Shuler Harris. Minter Company edition, 1904, 1904, The Minter Company. Source scan leaf 57. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0469-0053
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
An illustration of religious polemic or allegory in the historical source, rather than evidence that the depicted scene occurred.
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Illustrator not identified. The Dying Saloon-Keeper and the Apparitions. Sermons by the Devil. Scan leaf 57. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0469-0053