Art, Symbol & Imagination
All Thy Waves Are Gone over Me
A face emerges from tightly drawn waves beneath two immense rising wings. The dense marks almost engulf the small human presence. Yeats discusses the image’s religious symbolism in his introduction, connecting its wave with a form Horton repeats elsewhere in the collection.
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W. T. Horton. "All Thy Waves Are Gone over Me" [printed contents title]. In A Book of Images, W. T. Horton; introduction by W. B. Yeats. Illustrated 1898 edition, supplied as a digital scan, 1898, Unicorn Press. Source scan leaf 47. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/horton-all-thy-waves
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Title from the printed contents list. Editorial description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
Title follows the printed contents. The complete source plate retains its paper tone, margins and signature. Description concerns visible forms rather than assigning a universal symbolic meaning.
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W. T. Horton. All Thy Waves Are Gone over Me. A Book of Images. Scan leaf 47. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/horton-all-thy-waves