Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Hound at the City Gate: Harry Clarke’s Faust
A stretched animal body and an elongated head run diagonally across the page. Thin flames or trailing strokes stream behind the form. The preceding dialogue speaks of the dog as Faust and Wagner pass through the city gate. Clarke turns the ordinary animal outline into an uneasy, almost mechanical creature, with long narrow connections between head and body. The ornament prepares the later revelation in the study while remaining tied to this passage.
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Harry Clarke. "The Hound at the City Gate: 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 75. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/faust-clarke-74
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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. The Hound at the City Gate: Harry Clarke’s Faust. Faust. Scan leaf 75. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/faust-clarke-74