Art, Symbol & Imagination
Faust Encounters Margaret: Harry Clarke’s Illustration
A young man with a sword turns towards a woman holding a hanging vessel. A great curling creature lies across the base of their narrow framed encounter. The printed lines praise the woman’s virtue while adding that she is a little pert. Clarke gives the meeting a formal elegance made uneasy by the monstrous body below it. The two human figures face in different directions, allowing desire and reserve to occupy the same small space.
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Harry Clarke. "Faust Encounters Margaret: Harry Clarke’s Illustration" [editorial title]. In Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; translated by Bayard Taylor; illustrations by Harry Clarke. Undated Arden Book Company edition; Faust Part One, Bayard Taylor translation, Harry Clarke illustrations, undated edition, Arden Book Company. Source scan leaf 141. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/faust-clarke-140
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
Complete source design inspected individually. Editorial title; surrounding paper and unrelated text cropped away, integrated ornament retained. No tonal alteration.
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Harry Clarke. Faust Encounters Margaret: Harry Clarke’s Illustration. Faust. Scan leaf 141. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/faust-clarke-140