Art, Symbol & Imagination
St. George
A knight raises his sword before a vast dark winged creature. A narrow pale path curls away beside the monster towards a distant building. Horton uses the extreme difference in scale to turn the encounter of St. George and the dragon into a stark spiritual conflict.
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W. T. Horton. "St. George" [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 51. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/horton-st-george
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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. St. George. A Book of Images. Scan leaf 51. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/horton-st-george