'My arms are round you, and I lean
Against you, while the lark
Sings over us, and golden lights, and green
Shadows are on your bark.
There'll come a season when you'll stretch
Black boards to cover me;
Then in Mount Jerome I will lie, poorwretch,
With worms eternally.'
Frontispiece illustration. Origin of John Jameson whiskey : containing some interesting observations thereon together with the causes of its present scarcity / with drawings by Harry Clarke.
Dublin : Maunsel & Roberts, 1924.
@J_Wilkinson_Art @johnstonglenn A work inspired by Harry's readings of Faust's works, the character of Mephistopheles and the decadent.
A contemporary work entitled 'Decadents' ~
'The Mad Mulrannies' / Harry Clarke.
1917.
Illustration to J. M. Synge’s 'The Playboy of the Western World'.
Pen and ink on Bristol board.
Reproduced in Crampton Walker’s 'Irish Life and Landscape' (1927) with facsimile of Harry's autograph.
Queens.
~ from 'Poems and Translations' by J.M. Synge.
First printed and published by Elizabeth C. Yeats, at The Cuala Press, Churchtown, Dundrum, in the County of Dublin, Ireland, and finished on the eighth day of April of the same year.
[1909]
'He opened his portfolio very shyly and with delicate fingers drew out his lively drawings.'
George Harrap recalls his first meeting in London with Harry Clarke in 1913.
Clarke at 24 years of age was given his first major book illustration commission by the publisher.
Sean O'Casey's Juno at the Grafton Cinema, Dublin, c. 1930.
'Take the real Dublin people, frinstance: they know more about Charlie Chaplin an' Tommy Mix than they do about SS. Peter an' Paul!'
~ Captain Boyle.