ILLUSTRATION FOR “A SONG OF THE PYRENEES”

BY PAMELA COLMAN SMITH

This hand-coloured triptych consists of three images, side-by-side horizontally, framed with a thick black line. The image depicts a singular landscape, divided into thirds. The leftmost section is sunny, the centre is rainy, and the rightmost is in nightfall. The left section contains a hilly landscape. The sun is partially in frame in the top left corner and its beams extend along the background of the image, behind mountain crests and clouds. In the foreground, a blue river spans the image. Behind it, red and green land dotted with bushes and plants extends up to grey-coloured mountains. In the centre section, the hilly landscape continues, but this section is dominated by rainclouds along the top of the frame. Rain, represented by vertical lines, falls diagonally from the upper left to the bottom right corner. In the middle-ground of this section, a forest rendered in black ink outlines the landscape between the river and mountains. In the rightmost section, the third part of the landscape is depicted in moonlight. This section is coloured in shades of purple and blue. The river that spanned the first two image sections horizontally turns in this section, retreating between two mountains into the horizon. From between two mountains, a white moon is partially visible against a deep blue sky.

MLA citation:

Smith, Pamela Colman. Illustration for “A Song of the Pyrenees,” by Alix Egerton. The Green Sheaf, No. 1, 1903, p. [iv]. Green Sheaf Digital Edition, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Yellow Nineties 2.0, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2022. https://1890s.ca/gsv1-smith-triptych

magazine_images The Green Sheaf 1 A Song of the Pyrenees Pamela Colman Smith 1903 Hand-coloured illustration Triptych; illustrative tailpiece France, Spain, and Pyrenees mountains Moon Sun, Outdoor setting, Outside, Mountain/hill, Valley, Cloud, Water, River/stream, Rain, Tree, Woods/ forest, and Trees