Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Youth and the Winged Elder: The Wonder Clock
A youthful figure and a bearded elder sit close together beneath an overhanging tree. The elder’s great wings spread behind the pair while stones and distant buildings anchor the wooded landscape. The caption identifies the image as Howard Pyle’s work from The Wonder Clock.
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Howard Pyle. "The Youth and the Winged Elder: The Wonder Clock" [editorial title]. In Children's Books and Their Illustrators, Gleeson White. The Studio special winter number1897-98. Complete historical illustrated survey through printed page68, original illustrator index and all four listed supplements. Matching scanned original wrapper; UNC library scan., 1897, Offices of The Studio. Source scan leaf 65. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/white-wonder-clock-pyle
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Howard Pyle. The Youth and the Winged Elder: The Wonder Clock. Children's Books and Their Illustrators. Scan leaf 65. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/white-wonder-clock-pyle