Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Path to the Moon
A narrow stair coils upward through a black field scattered with tiny stars. Its turns diminish as the path approaches a round pale moon. Horton makes an impossible ascent seem continuous through the repeated edges of the winding steps.
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W. T. Horton. "The Path to the Moon" [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 43. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/horton-path-to-the-moon
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W. T. Horton. The Path to the Moon. A Book of Images. Scan leaf 43. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/horton-path-to-the-moon