Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Ride through Walpurgis Night: Harry Clarke’s Faust
Two richly dressed riders move diagonally through a dark canopy on elongated creatures. The lower beast’s head fills the corner beneath their trailing clothes. The printed caption places the movement under the old ribs of the rock. Clarke makes the journey feel enclosed by living branches and flowing hair, so that riders and terrain almost merge. Pale faces punctuate the dense field without opening it into daylight.
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Harry Clarke. "The Ride through Walpurgis Night: 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 215. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/faust-clarke-214
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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. The Ride through Walpurgis Night: Harry Clarke’s Faust. Faust. Scan leaf 215. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/faust-clarke-214