Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Last Meeting in the Prison Yard
A narrow side panel contains an elongated human figure beside a central poem block and low landscape. The verse recalls two outcasts standing in the prison’s dark trial pen.
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Latimer J. Wilson. "The Last Meeting in the Prison Yard" [editorial title]. In The Ballad of Reading Gaol, Oscar Wilde; drawings by Latimer J. Wilson. New York: F. M. Buckles & Company illustrated edition, catalogued 1907; drawings by Latimer J. Wilson., 1907, F. M. Buckles & Company. Source scan leaf 14. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0621-0014
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Latimer J. Wilson. The Last Meeting in the Prison Yard. The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Scan leaf 14. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0621-0014