The Illustrations to Tales of Mystery and Imagination, by Edgar Allen Poe, by Harry Clarke, 1919. Click for full size.
But then without those doors there DID stand the lofty and enshrouded figure of the Lady Madeline of Usher.
The Fall Of The House Of Usher.
Clarke had a thing about fingers, they are nearly always depicted with middle and third finger held together, first and little held apart, a sort of reverse Vulcan greeting. I keep trying holding my fingers like that and it feels most odd.
I’m near obsessed with the way Clarke did hands, during the Faust illustrations, I found myself doing my hands the way he did for every one. I also wished I had all the beautiful rings and handflowers he drew.
Great. Thanks people. Now I’ll spend the rest of the day holding my fingers that way. Npw my typing will be eben worse!
Hey, Lady Madelaine shouldn’t complain, at least she kept her teeth unlike Berenice.
Raucous Indignation weird feeling isn’t it?
Yes. It is.