Art, Symbol & Imagination
Notre Dame de Paris
Two massive square towers stand on either side of a thin central spire. Small openings and pale vertical marks break the nearly solid black silhouette. Horton presents Notre Dame as a concentrated architectural vision rather than a detailed survey of the cathedral.
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W. T. Horton. "Notre Dame de Paris" [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 27. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/horton-notre-dame
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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. Notre Dame de Paris. A Book of Images. Scan leaf 27. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/horton-notre-dame