Art, Symbol & Imagination
Temptation
Two pale profiles face a small city set low against an otherwise black field. The older, sharply featured companion extends a hand towards its towers. Horton stages temptation as an intimate suggestion, with the desired world appearing almost miniature in the distance.
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W. T. Horton. "Temptation" [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 53. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/horton-temptation
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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. Temptation. A Book of Images. Scan leaf 53. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/horton-temptation