All Resolutions
"Help! Fire! Help! Hell-fire is sent!" [...]
"'Tis magic! Strike ... Cut him as you like!"
(Facing p. 62.)
Artist
- Name:
- Delacroix, Eugène
- Dates:
- 1798-1863
- Country:
- France
Illustration
- Subject:
- Narratives
- Technique:
- Lithograph
- Lithographer:
- Delacroix, Eugène
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
- Source:
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Book
- Title:
- Faust (Delacroix)
- Author(s):
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
- Publisher:
- Paris: Ch. Motte, 1828
Description
Some among a group of men seem panic-stricken by flames rising from the floor of an inn while one, sitting on a table with his arms crossed around the handle of his sword, looks down coolly at the incident.
The caption reads in French:
— Au feu, à l’aide, l’enfer s’allume. […]
— Sorcellerie ! jetez-vous sur lui … Son affaire ne sera pas longue.
The caption in English was taken from the translation of Faust by Bayard Taylor. New York: Arden Book Company, n.d.
Keywords: 1820s, 19th century, black & white, Faust, fire, frightened, male, Romanticism
