Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Great Wheel: Dulac’s Lunar Design
Original caption: The Great Wheel
A ring of changing moons surrounds a four-part interior containing small symbolic figures. Contrasting faces look inward from the sides of the square design. The plate introduces the lunar classification of human types developed in Yeats’s speculative system.
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Citation
Edmund Dulac. "The Great Wheel: Dulac’s Lunar Design" [source caption]. In A Vision, William Butler Yeats. First edition, title dated 1925; privately printed for subscribers. Complete historical text, xxiii preliminary pages and 256 numbered pages, with Edmund Dulac illustrations and the original diagrams. Internet Archive scan; matching scanned title page used as cover., 1925, T. Werner Laurie, Ltd.. Source scan leaf 15. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/vision-great-wheel
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Title from the printed caption. Editorial description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
Historical source image. Editorial titles and interpretations are identified as such; paper tone and historical marks retained.
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- Primary and Antithetical in A VisionThe contrasting objective and subjective tendencies that Yeats calls the two Tinctures.
- The Four Faculties in A VisionWill, Mask, Creative Mind and Body of Fate: the four interacting faculties in Yeats’s 1925 model.
- The Great Wheel in A VisionThe circular diagram through which Yeats organises twenty-eight phases, contrasting tendencies and human types.
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Edmund Dulac. The Great Wheel: Dulac’s Lunar Design. A Vision. Scan leaf 15. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/vision-great-wheel