Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Fiddler of Dooney before St. Peter
A small musician looks up towards a vast haloed figure seated among clouds. Immense keys and radiating lines establish the upper figure’s authority. The printed quotation places the fiddler before St. Peter at the end of time in Yeats’s poem.
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Harry Clarke. "The Fiddler of Dooney before St. Peter" [editorial title]. In The Year's at the Spring, Compiled by L. D'O. Walters; illustrated by Harry Clarke; introduction by Harold Monro. Brentano illustrated anthology with a September1920 first-publication statement, undated edition, Brentano's. Source scan leaf 39. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0265-0034
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Harry Clarke. The Fiddler of Dooney before St. Peter. The Year's at the Spring. Scan leaf 39. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0265-0034