Dust Jacket
Date1920
Artist
George William Gage
(American painter, 1887–1957)
Illustration CitationThe Door of the Double Dragon, a Romance of the China of Yesterday and To-Day, by Hector Blanding (New York: W.J. Watt and Co., 1920)
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions29 1/4 × 19 5/8 in. (74.3 × 49.8 cm)
frame: 33 1/4 × 23 3/4 × 2 in. (84.5 × 60.3 × 5.1 cm)
frame: 33 1/4 × 23 3/4 × 2 in. (84.5 × 60.3 × 5.1 cm)
Credit LineLouisa du Pont Copeland Memorial Fund, 1977
Object number1977-237
On View
On viewClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextGeorge Gage’s cover sets the mood for this novel about China—still an exotic locale for most American readers in 1920. The central character is a young American woman who goes to China to paint a portrait of the emperor. Gage combines colorful and ornate doors with a shadowy space beyond, suggesting both the pleasures and the uncertainties of the artist’s experience. 
