Open Edition Print.
A3 Unframed (420mm x 297mm).
Adapted from an original charcoal drawing, this design is inspired by Book V of William Wordsworth’s The Prelude. In a vision both strange and elemental, the poet dreams of an Arab riding a dromedary across a wilderness without boundary. The drawing traces this dreamscape of vast emptiness and uncanny encounter, where fear, prophecy, and imagination meet.
Wordsworth’s own lines shape the spirit of the work, and are included as a part of an authentication certificate included with each print:
I saw before me stretched a boundless plain
Of sandy wilderness, all black and void,
And as I looked around, distress and fear
Came creeping over me, when at my side,
Close at my side, an uncouth shape appeared
Upon a dromedary, mounted high.
He seemed an Arab of the Bedouin tribes:
A lance he bore, and underneath one arm
A stone, and in the opposite hand a shell
Of a surpassing brightness.
Printed on a high quality 300gsm Fresco Gesso textured cardstock, The Dream of the Arab offers an accessible way to collect and share one of the first designs in the Prelude Editions series.
Open Edition Print.
A3 Unframed (420mm x 297mm).
Adapted from an original charcoal drawing, this design is inspired by Book V of William Wordsworth’s The Prelude. In a vision both strange and elemental, the poet dreams of an Arab riding a dromedary across a wilderness without boundary. The drawing traces this dreamscape of vast emptiness and uncanny encounter, where fear, prophecy, and imagination meet.
Wordsworth’s own lines shape the spirit of the work, and are included as a part of an authentication certificate included with each print:
I saw before me stretched a boundless plain
Of sandy wilderness, all black and void,
And as I looked around, distress and fear
Came creeping over me, when at my side,
Close at my side, an uncouth shape appeared
Upon a dromedary, mounted high.
He seemed an Arab of the Bedouin tribes:
A lance he bore, and underneath one arm
A stone, and in the opposite hand a shell
Of a surpassing brightness.
Printed on a high quality 300gsm Fresco Gesso textured cardstock, The Dream of the Arab offers an accessible way to collect and share one of the first designs in the Prelude Editions series.
