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The line block image is in portrait orientation. The image shows a fragmented scene of one knight facing off with creatures on a long and narrow path to a city that is surrounded by blackness. An oversized man taking up the whole height of the page appears in armour and floats in the air over the scene on the right side of the page. He faces to the left and is holding up a body-length polearm with a cross on the end and the Star of David in the middle of the cross. The polearm is in his left hand and is angled diagonally down to the right. The pole has two wings jutting out on the side closer to him, just below the cross and Star of David. Another smaller wing appears towards the bottom of the pole. The wings are angelic and feathered, and small eyes cover the surface of the two wings at the top of the pole. The knight’s face and body are visible in profile, but a waxing, crescent moon shaped white shape covers him from the centreline of his body to the right. He is wearing armour that has a striped effect from the alternation of black and light metal strips. He wears a light chest plate and has faulds made of stacked upside down semi-circles lining his lower body. His head is covered with a striped helmet that envelopes the edges of his face. His face is comprised of a closed and straight mouth, and his eyes stare forward but slightly down on the scene below and before him. In his right hand, slightly lowered compared to his left, is a sword split into three blades. The sword is angled diagonally down to the left. The handle of the sword is covered by the pole in his other hand, but the guard is partially visible and decorated with a gem on each end. The sword blades layer over top of the scene below, and appears to be striking an unseen figure on the extreme left of the picture plane glimpsed only in the form a a mailed hand and forearm emerging diagonally up to the right. The gauntlet is made of streaks of light on the black background. The hand is partially curled inward. The Star of David is directly above the hand on the page, while the gauntletted hand appears directly above the city at the top of the path. In the centre of the foreground the long path begins. It appears to be a stone precipice, and has jagged edges that turn back and forth towards the vanishing point in the slightly left aligned mid-ground. On the closest part of the path in the foreground stands a small armoured knight stands in a wide stance with his back to the viewer.. A sword hangs from the back of his belt. He is holding a shield in his left hand and another sword is in his right hand, pointed forward to fend off the creatures that surround him. To the right of the knight is a bulbous creature facing the left side of the page in profile, which appears to have no extremities. The creature has a long, pointed nose that extends far off the face. The eyebrow visible is pointed down towards the centre of the face. On the far side of the knight is a partially visible grotesque creature that has a long angular face with elf ears and eyes with eyebrows that point down towards the centre of the face. To the left is another grotesque creature, with an invisible body, showing the path in the distance through his torso. The head is block shaped and larger at the top. He has bulging wide eyes, a downturned and open mouth, and a large block-like nose. To the left of him is another grotesque creature visible only by their head and neck, turned to face the knight and wearing a robe that tightens around the face, showing only a furrowed brow, long pointed nose, and downturned open mouth. On the left of the path are three ghostly creatures, shown in outline overlay, with the scene visible through them, their backs to the viewer and their faces turned toward the knight and the grotesque creatures. All the creatures are wearing robes and no arms or legs are visible. The winding upward path leads to a city shown in skyline view in the distance, appearing about halfway up the left side of the page. Around the path is stark blackness, which comprises the rest of the background. The artist’s signature appears in the bottom left corner of the page, in a horizontal line aligned with the left edge resting on top of the border. The text is: “William T. Horton.” Beneath the frame is the biblical caption: “Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto lite, and few there be that find it.”—MATTHEW, vii.14.