Art, Symbol & Imagination
Nocturne
Dark buildings rise on both sides of a narrow pale waterway. The banks converge towards a low horizon beneath an empty sky. Horton makes the nocturnal city legible through the small strip of reflected light separating its silhouettes.
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W. T. Horton. "Nocturne" [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 37. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/horton-nocturne
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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. Nocturne. A Book of Images. Scan leaf 37. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/horton-nocturne