Aubrey Beardsley (British, 1872-1898)
1894
Pen and ink
5 x 3"
E.1.1

Originally published in Le Morte d'Arthur, by Thomas Malory, London: Dent, 1894, Book X, Chapter 19, "How Sir Lamorak Jousted with Sir Palomides, and Hurt Him Grievously"

Wladyslaw T. Benda (Polish, 1873-1948)
1917
Charcoal on paper
27 x 38”

The Army of the Dead is an unusual work for Benda, who rarely worked with outright fantastic themes. It was produced at the outbreak of World War I as a recruiting poster for the Polish army, and depicts a legendary Polish cavalry brigade. It appears, however, that it was deemed too extreme and grotesque by the commission, as no record exists of the poster having been produced.

Harry Clarke (Irish, 1889-1931)
1919
Pen and ink
9 x 7"
E.2.1

"Nor had I erred in my calculations- nor had I endured in vain. I at length felt that I was free..."

Originally published in Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allen Poe for the story "The Pit and the Pendulum" published by G.G. Harrap & Co.: London, 1919.

Harry Clarke (Irish, 1889-1931)
1925
Pen and ink, watercolor
12 x 9"
E.2.2

"Dearest and best, with my whole heart I love thee."

Frontispiece for Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd., 1925.

Harry Clarke (Irish, 1889-1931)
1919
Pen and ink
13 x 10"
E.2.3

"Upon the bed, before the whole company, there lay a nearly liquid mass of loathsome- of detestable putridity."

Originally published in Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allen Poe for the story "The Facts in the Case of Mr. Valdemar" London: George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.,1919.

Gustave Doré (French, 1832-1883)
1863
Pen and ink
10 x 8"
E.3.1

Scene 2: The enchanted Garden of Dulcinea
Fairies appear surrounded by gnomes, and Don Quixote finds himself dressed in shining armor. Then comes a succession of fearsome monsters, the last being a gigantic spider, who spins a web. The knight attacks the spider, which he slashes in half with his sword. At the same moment the spider's web vanishes to reveal a beautiful garden. At the entrance stand Dulcinea, surrounded by Dryads.

Edmund Dulac (French 1882-1953)
1908
Watercolor, gouache and black ink on paper
~17 x 11"
E.4.1

Full fathom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade
Both doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell

Burthen Ding-Dong
Hark! now I hear them, --Ding-dong, bell.

-Shakespeare, William. The Tempest, Act I Scene II v. 396

William R. Flint (Scottish, 1880-1969)
1910
Watercolor, glazed
9.75 x 12.75”
E.5.1

A Monody:
O' easy access to the hearer's grace / When Dorian shepherds sang to Proserpine! / For she herself had trod Sicilian fields / She knew the Dorian's water's gush divine, / She knew each lily white which Enna yields, / Each rose with blushing face!

Originally published in The Scholar Gipsy * Thyrsis, a poem by Matthew Arnold, London: Philip Lee Warner, 1910, illus. p. 55.