Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Wave
A great dark wave rises in a smooth arc above a small cluster of buildings. Its pale edge extends beyond the town and fills almost the entire frame. Yeats’s introduction interprets Horton’s recurring wave as divine overshadowing love, adding a spiritual reading to the apparently threatening scale.
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W. T. Horton. "The Wave" [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 35. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/horton-the-wave
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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 Wave. A Book of Images. Scan leaf 35. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/horton-the-wave