Goethe's faust

The devil conjures a vision of Britannia for Gladstone who plays the role of Faust; a presentation cartoon from the 'St Stephens' Review', 12 December 1885 Colour lithograph

Garden scene in Faust (1925)

The illustrator and stained-glass designer fused Irish and European traditions to create an intriguing new idiom, writes Tom Walker

Evoking the playful grotesques of Shel Silverstein, the gothic gloom of Neil Gaiman’s Sandman comics, the occult beauty of the Rider-Waite tarot deck, and the hidden horrors of H.P.

Harry Clarke - Art Gallery of Complete Illustrations from the First Edition of the book Faust, by Goethe published in 1925.

10 by 14cm., 4 by 5.5in. pen and ink over pencil By descent from the artist to the present owner

Harry Clarke (Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe), 1925

Harry Clarke

F. Simm, "Homunculus," from Faust. 1899.

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