With shades of Piranesi meets Beardsley by way of Dulac (?) here's Mr Sime's picture The Edge of the World, which illustrated (and/or inspired) Dunsany's yarn, "The Probable Adventure of Three Literary Men", which can can read here.
The Mysterious Planet: Too cool for Thule
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More "high anxiety" from Mr Sime. As a vertigo sufferer a lot of my dreams are suffused with the kind of inconography that makes pictures like this so unsettling.
ReplyDeleteAs a viewer you are automatically sucked into attempting a journey through this disquieting landscape and you know that you're chances of making it to the end are slim indeed.
P.S. Many thanks for sharing all these exquisite illustrations with us Dave. You've definitely enriched my cyber surfing over the last week.
ReplyDeleteI'm with you, Peter, as regards the vertigo effect. Many of Dunsany's tales at this time are set at the world's edge, which naturally gave free rein to Sime's penchant for precipices. I don't know if you've seen Miyazaki's movie Laputa? Similarly nailbiting altitudes evoked there.
ReplyDeleteBtw if Sime were working today, he'd be a perfect fit at a game studio developing a puzzle-platformer like Ico, Shadow of the Colossus or The Last Guardian.
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