From Punch, 1845.
Post a comment
Comments are moderated, and will not appear until the author has approved them.
Your Information
(Name is required. Email address will not be displayed with the comment.)
« The Imp of the Planchette | Main | A Moonstruck Fool »
Comments
You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post.
Verify your Comment
Previewing your Comment
Your comment could not be posted. Error type:
Your comment has been saved. Comments are moderated and will not appear until approved by the author. Post another comment
As a final step before posting your comment, enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. This prevents automated programs from posting comments.
Having trouble reading this image? View an alternate.
Search
Categories
- abracadabra
- aesop's fables
- alchemy
- alphabet
- art
- cauldron
- color
- death
- divination
- egypt
- fairy
- fiction
- Geof Huth
- ghosts
- glamour
- Hermes
- imagination
- Janus
- language
- literature
- love
- magic
- Magic Words
- mirror
- music
- mystery
- nabokov
- necromancy
- open sesame
- Out of Context
- passwords
- pentacle
- poetry
- pronouns
- Punctuation Tarot
- rabbit
- religion
- Sam Keen
- Sator Arepo Tenet Opera Rotas
- science
- sigil
- silence
- snow
- spirit
- stage magic
- talisman
- tantra
- tarot
- Tarot Analogs
- Tarot in the Wild
- Umberto Eco
- vowels
- zodiac
That's rather sad. :o( Touching, though.
Posted by: Janet Boyer | 10/10/2012 at 09:47 AM
I agree, Janet. I note that the artist included a will on the wall, and has the dying man's hands folded in prayer, so as to indicate that he's prepared to go and thereby soften the impact of this scene.
Posted by: Craig Conley | 10/10/2012 at 09:57 AM
Indeed. :o)
Posted by: Janet Boyer | 10/10/2012 at 10:18 AM