Art, Symbol & Imagination
By the Canal
Steep gables and narrow towers form a jagged silhouette beside a canal. Dense black strokes make the buildings seem to merge with the dark sky. Horton reduces the town and its reflection to a compact visionary landscape in A Book of Images.
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W. T. Horton. "By the Canal" [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 21. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/horton-by-the-canal
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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. By the Canal. A Book of Images. Scan leaf 21. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/horton-by-the-canal