Art, Symbol & Imagination
Angels above the Christian’s Deathbed
A dying man lies beside a seated visitor while a woman kneels in the foreground. Winged figures carry a pale form upwards in the book’s accompanying vision of a Christian death.
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Illustrator not identified. "Angels above the Christian’s Deathbed" [editorial title]. In Sermons by the Devil, William Shuler Harris. Minter Company edition, 1904, 1904, The Minter Company. Source scan leaf 58. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0469-0054
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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. Angels above the Christian’s Deathbed. Sermons by the Devil. Scan leaf 58. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0469-0054