Art, Symbol & Imagination
Margaret at the Spinning Wheel: Harry Clarke’s Faust
A young woman appears within a spreading patterned garment, with a curved object to the right and flowing ornaments along the base. Her face tilts upward. The scene heading places Margaret alone at her spinning wheel, and the opening song laments the loss of peace. Clarke concentrates the illustration on her upper body rather than a fully described domestic room. The garment’s dark mass makes her face a small exposed centre.
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Harry Clarke. "Margaret at the Spinning Wheel: Harry Clarke’s Faust" [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 186. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/faust-clarke-185
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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. Margaret at the Spinning Wheel: Harry Clarke’s Faust. Faust. Scan leaf 186. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/faust-clarke-185