{"id":20246,"date":"2020-12-15T17:28:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T17:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=20246"},"modified":"2022-12-21T11:01:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T11:01:16","slug":"harry-clarke-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2020\/12\/15\/harry-clarke-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Clarke online"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Devil’s Wife and her Eldest. A frontispiece for The Golden Hind, July, 1924, a magazine edited by Clifford Bax and Austin Osman Spare. I’ve seen this drawing referred to in print as “Goddem with Attendants” although this isn’t how it was titled in the magazine.<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s taken some time but with a little careful searching it’s now possible to see (almost) all of Harry Clarke’s major works of illustration online. The Poe illustrations have been available in a variety of different scans for many years, their popularity being followed by some of the Faust<\/em> drawings. But Clarke’s other books are more elusive, so what you have here is links to the most complete collections of illustrations from each title, several of which also include the accompanying text.<\/p>\n

This isn’t all of Clarke’s illustration work, of course. He produced many single pieces for magazines, as well as two rare promotional publications for the Irish whiskey distiller, Jameson. If he hadn’t been so tied up with the stained-glass business he inherited there would have been much more. The biographical books mention titles he suggested to publishers as potential projects, a list which includes Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde<\/em>, Huysmans’ \u00c0 rebours<\/em>, and\u2014most tantalising of all\u2014Bram Stoker’s Dracula<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, 1916.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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A post at Flickr<\/a>. Despite Clarke’s achievements as a stained-glass artist his colour illustrations aren’t always as successful as those in black-and-white. That’s certainly the case here.<\/p>\n

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Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe, 1919.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The 1923 edition<\/a> is at the Internet Archive, a reprint which added several new colour pieces, none of which fare well in this scan. The book is also missing the frontispiece<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The Year’s at the Spring, edited by Lettice D’Oyly Walters, 1920.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Another complete edition<\/a> at the Internet Archive.<\/p>\n

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The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault, 1922.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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An almost-complete edition<\/a>. This one again suffers from a missing frontispiece<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1925.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Not great reproductions since this edition<\/a> is adapted from an e-book, but it does feature all of the black-and-white Faust<\/em> illustrations in order, and with their accompanying quotes. No colour plates, however.<\/p>\n

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Selected Poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne, 1928.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Clarke’s most Decadent and erotic work, this one has yet to turn up in complete form but the defunct art blog, Golden Age Comic Book Stories, posted all of the art here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 The illustrators archive<\/a><\/p>\n

Previously on { feuilleton }
\n\u2022 Harry Clarke record covers<\/a>
\n\u2022 Thomas Bodkin on Harry Clarke<\/a>
\n\u2022 Harry Clarke: His Graphic Art<\/a>
\n\u2022 Harry Clarke and others in The Studio<\/a>
\n\u2022 Harry Clarke\u2019s Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault<\/a>
\n\u2022 Harry Clarke in colour<\/a>
\n\u2022 The Tinderbox<\/a>
\n\u2022 Harry Clarke and the Elixir of Life<\/a>
\n\u2022 Cardwell Higgins versus Harry Clarke<\/a>
\n\u2022 Modern book illustrators, 1914<\/a>
\n\u2022 Illustrating Poe #3: Harry Clarke<\/a>
\n\u2022 Strangest Genius: The Stained Glass of Harry Clarke<\/a>
\n\u2022 Harry Clarke\u2019s stained glass<\/a>
\n\u2022 Harry Clarke\u2019s The Year\u2019s at the Spring<\/a>
\n\u2022 The art of Harry Clarke, 1889\u20131931<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Devil’s Wife and her Eldest. A frontispiece for The Golden Hind, July, 1924, a magazine edited by Clifford Bax and Austin Osman Spare. I’ve seen this drawing referred to in print as “Goddem with Attendants” although this isn’t how it was titled in the magazine. It’s taken some time but with a little careful … Continue reading “Harry Clarke online”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New blog post: Harry Clarke online","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,30,42,21,22,48,44],"tags":[11083,2469,3366,11060,977,93,1213,2117,99,10664,4389],"class_list":["post-20246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-black-white","category-books","category-fantasy","category-horror","category-illustrators","category-painting","tag-algernon-charles-swinburne","tag-austin-osman-spare","tag-charles-perrault","tag-clifford-bax","tag-dracula","tag-edgar-allan-poe","tag-golden-age-comic-book-stories","tag-hans-christian-andersen","tag-harry-clarke","tag-johann-wolfgang-von-goethe","tag-lettice-doyly-walters"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-5gy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}