Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Gap
Two sharply drawn cliff edges recede towards a narrow point in the distance. An unbroken black chasm separates their pale surfaces. Yeats’s introduction connects Horton’s recurring abyss with this image, placing the stark landscape within the book’s symbolic vocabulary.
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W. T. Horton. "The Gap" [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 39. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/horton-the-gap
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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. The Gap. A Book of Images. Scan leaf 39. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/horton-the-gap