A MILLION YEARS HENCE

BY AE [GEORGE RUSSELL]

This stand-alone image is printed on heavy card stock and centered on the page, set in a black-lined rectangular frame. At the centre of the image, a naked man sits atop a large skull, facing away from the viewer, overlooking a cliff edge. The man and skull are coloured with the same shade of sickly, darkened green. The skull is missing several front teeth, and casts a dark shadow on the left side of the image plane behind it. In the right foreground, a single sunbeam illuminates three more figures coloured in pale red: a woman holding an infant, and a child sitting beside her. Beyond the cliff edge, shadowed blue clouds occupy the background, and the faint outline of the sun is visible partially behind a cloud.

MLA citation:

A.E. [George Russell]. “A Million Years Hence.” Illustrative Supplement (np) to The Green Sheaf, No. 2, 1903. Green Sheaf Digital Edition, edited by Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Yellow Nineties 2.0, Toronto Metropolitan University Centre for Digital Humanities, 2022. https://1890s.ca/gsv2-supplement

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