Harry Clarke
Harry Clarke (17 March 1889 - 6 January 1931) was an Irish stained-glass artist and book illustrator. Born in Dublin, he was a leading figure in the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement.
Henry Patrick (Harry) Clarke was born 17 March 1889, younger son and third child of Joshua Clarke and Brigid Clarke (née MacGonigal). Church decorator Joshua Clarke moved to Dublin from Leeds in 1877 and started a decorating business Joshua Clarke & Sons, which later incorporated a stained glass division. Through his work with his father, Clarke was exposed to many schools of art but Art Nouveau in particular.
Clarke moved to London to seek work as a book illustrator. Picked up by London publisher Harrap, he started with two commissions which were never completed: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (his work on which was destroyed during the 1916 Easter Rising) and an illustrated edition of Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock.
Henry Patrick (Harry) Clarke was born 17 March 1889, younger son and third child of Joshua Clarke and Brigid Clarke (née MacGonigal). Church decorator Joshua Clarke moved to Dublin from Leeds in 1877 and started a decorating business Joshua Clarke & Sons, which later incorporated a stained glass division. Through his work with his father, Clarke was exposed to many schools of art but Art Nouveau in particular.
Clarke moved to London to seek work as a book illustrator. Picked up by London publisher Harrap, he started with two commissions which were never completed: Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (his work on which was destroyed during the 1916 Easter Rising) and an illustrated edition of Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock.
Difficulties with these projects made Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen his first printed work, in 1916. It included 16 colour plates and more than 24 halftone illustrations. This was followed by an illustrations for an edition of Edgar Allan Poe's Tales of Mystery and Imagination: the first version of that title was restricted to halftone illustrations, while a second with eight colour plates and more than 24 halftone images was published in 1923. This 1923 edition made his reputation as a book illustrator, during the golden age of gift-book illustration in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Clarke's work can be compared to that of Aubrey Beardsley, Kay Nielsen, and Edmund Dulac.
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'A Figure, from Tales of Mystery and Imagination' by Harry Clarke in 1900's £6.99
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'But for many minutes the heart beat on with a muffled sound, from The Tell-Tale Heart' by Harry Clarke in 1900's £6.99
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'But then without those Doors there did stand the Lofty and Enshrouded Figure of the Lady Madeline of Usher, from The Fall of the House of Usher' by Harry Clarke in 1900's £6.99
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'But there was no voice throughout the vast, illimitable desert, from Silence a fable' by Harry Clarke in 1900's £6.99
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'For the Love of God! Montresor! from The Cask of Amontillado' by Harry Clarke in 1900's £6.99
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'Has no copy be taken, he demanded. Surveying it through a Microscope, from Lion-izing' by Harry Clarke in 1900's £6.99
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'I had Walled the Monster up within the Tomb! from The Black Cat' by Harry Clarke in 1900's £6.99
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'I saw them fashion the syllables of my name, from The Pit and the Pendulum' by Harry Clarke in 1900's £6.99
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'Incomprehensible Men! Wrapped up in Meditations ofa kind which I cannot divine, they pass me unnoticed, from The Purloined Letter' by Harry Clarke in 1900's £6.99
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'It was a fearful page in the record of my existence, from Berenice' by Harry Clarke in 1900's £6.99
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'Landor's Cottage' by Harry Clarke in 1900's £6.99
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'Tales from Tales of Mystery & Imagination' by Harry Clarke in 1900's £6.99
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'Tales from Tales of Mystery & Imagination' by Harry Clarke in 1900's £6.99
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'The Boat appeared to be hanging' by Harry Clarke in 1900's £6.99
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'The Dagger Dropped Gleaming Upon the Sable Carpet' by Harry Clarke in 1900's £6.99
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'There flashed upon a glare, from The Gold-bug' by Harry Clarke in 1900's £6.99
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'They Swarmed Upon me in ever-accumalating heaps, from The Pit and the Pendulum' by Harry Clarke in 1900's £6.99
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'Upon the Bed there lay a nearly liquid mass of loathsome, of detestable putridity, from The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar' by Harry Clarke in 1900's £6.99