The Tom Wilkes-designed front cover of "Dark Horse" features a 1956 Liverpool Institute high-school photograph presented inside a lotus flower, behind which a dream-like Himalayan landscape extends to the horizon, where the "deathless Yogi of the Ancient of Days", Mahavatar Babaji, sits. While some observers have seen pointed similarities with the Beatles' iconic "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" cover image, Harrison's choice of artwork reflected his enduring admiration for Terry Gilliam's animation on "Monty Python's Flying Circus". In the photo, a thirteen-year-old Harrison is pictured in the centre of the top row, his face tinted blue; school teachers appear dressed in long-sleeve tops bearing a superimposed record-company logo or Om symbol. Wilkes and Harrison disagreed over the size of the Babaji image, which the designer apparently disliked and wanted to reduce in size.