The detailed  black-and-white wood engraving depicts a magician in a broad hat and robe standing on the threshhold of a walled garden.

Within months of the December 1902 production of Bethlehem, John Baillie’s Gallery held an exhibition  that included drawings by Laurence Housman and wood engravings by Louise Glazier and Clemence Housman. While Glazier's woodcuts were original prints designed and cut by herself, Clemence Housman's exhibits were facsimile engravings after Laurence Housman's designs. Baillie included Clemence Housman’s exquisite cutting of the title page for her brother’s self-illustrated book of fairy tales, The Blue Moon (1904), as a work of art in the first volume of The Venture, the only reproductive engraving in a list of original woodcuts by the period's best woodcut artists, including E. Gordon Craig, Louise Glazier, Eleanor Monsell, Lucien Pissarro,. and Charles Ricketts. 

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Winter 1903

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