Stained Glass suite to Synge's Queens (1917)

Designs by Harry Clarke

 

 

In 1917 Harry Clarke completed a commission from The Rt Hon Laurence Waldron PC for a set of stained glass to

accompany the words within Synge's Queens.

 

Designed to be hung from left to right in the library windows of Waldron's Killiney Bay house, the first and last panels

were stained and painted on kelp-coated clear glass. The remaining panels were wax and acid-etched out of flashed blue,

ruby or gold-pink pot-metal glass in addition to being stained and painted. Clarke signed or initialed each panel.

 

For an exhibition of the panels at Dublin's Municipal Gallery of Modern Art between 1925 and 1928, Clarke customized

a wrought iron stand to display the panels to best effect when not insitu at Waldron's Killiney Bay property.

 

Below, we show first the preparatory designs drawn by Clarke and then, the final stained glass pieces are presented.

 

 

Our Greeting Cards and Reproduction Prints

 

 

For connoisseurs of Clarke's work, we have prepared sets of 9 Greeting Cards displaying images from his preparatory designs for this stained glass commission  and on the right, we show an example of how these Greeting Cards appear.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Code: HC QP CS(9)
Price: US$45.00

 

Similarly, we have prepared sets of 9 Greeting Cards displaying images from his final stained glass pieces accompanying the words of Synge's Queens and on the left, we show an example of how these Greeting Cards appear.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Code: HC Q CS(9)
Price: US$45.00

 

When presented on Greeting Cards, these images are prepared as tipped-on plates - in hommage to the hand-crafted

approach typical of prestige illustrated publications produced in the early decades of the 20th Century. Each card is

hand-finished, with the image presented on Ivory card stock with an accompanying envelope. On the rear of each

card we also present some information about Harry Clarke and the profiled illustration. We have left the interior of

the cards blank so that you may write your own personal message.

 

Each of our large format reproductions are prepared with archival quality materials and processes to ensure many

years of enjoyment. In addition, our reproductions are accompanied by explanatory material relating to Harry Clarke

and the profiled illustration.

 

To purchase, simply click on the appropriate "Add to Cart" button and you will be taken through to our Shopping Cart

secured through PayPal. Multiple purchases will be consolidated by that feature and shipping and handling costs to any

destination in the world are accommodated by our flat-rate fee of US$20 for every US$200 worth of purchases.

 

Of course, should you wish to discuss some customised options, we welcome your contact on any matter through

ThePeople@SpiritoftheAges.com.

 

In the meantime, enjoy perusing these wonderful examples of the art of Harry Clarke.

 

 

The preparatory designs

 

Seven dog-days we let pass

Naming Queens in Glenmacnass,

All the rare and royal names

Wormy sheepskin yet retains,

 

 

Etain, Helen, Maeve, and Fand,

Gold Deirdre's tender hand,

Bert, the big-foot, sung by Villon,

Cassandra, Ronsard found in Lyon.

Queens of Sheba, Meath and Connaught,

Coifed with crown, or gaudy bonnet,

Reproduction on 12X18" sheet

Code: HC QP C1 12X18
Price: US$60.00

 

 

Reproduction on 12X18" sheet

Code: HC QP C2 12X18
Price: US$60.00

 

 

Reproduction on 12X18" sheet

Code: HC QP C3 12X18
Price: US$60.00

 

 

Reproduction on 12X18" sheet

Code: HC QP C4 12X18
Price: US$60.00

 

 

Queens whose finger once did stir men,

Queens were eaten of fleas and vermin,

Queens men drew like Monna Lisa,

Or slew with drugs in Rome and Pisa,

 

 

We named Lucrezia Crivelli,

And Titian's lady with amber belly,

Queens acquainted in learned sin,

Jane of Jewry's slender shin:

Queens who cut the bogs of Glanna,

Judith of Scripture, and Gloriana,

Queens who wasted the East by proxy,

Or drove the ass-cart, a tinker's doxy,

Reproduction on 12X18" sheet

Code: HC QP C5 12X18
Price: US$60.00

 

 

Reproduction on 12X18" sheet

Code: HC QP C6 12X18
Price: US$60.00

 

 

Reproduction on 12X18" sheet

Code: HC QP C7 12X18
Price: US$60.00

 

 

Reproduction on 12X18" sheet

Code: HC QP C8 12X18
Price: US$60.00

 

 
     

Yet these are rotten - I ask their pardon -

And we've the sun on rock and garden,

These are rotten, so you're the Queen

Of all are living, or have been.

 

J M Synge

 

 

      

Reproduction on 12X18" sheet

Code: HC QP C9 12X18
Price: US$60.00

 

 

      
 

 

The final stained glass pieces

 

Seven dog-days we let pass

Naming Queens in Glenmacnass,

All the rare and royal names

Wormy sheepskin yet retains,

 

 

Etain, Helen, Maeve, and Fand,

Gold Deirdre's tender hand,

Bert, the big-foot, sung by Villon,

Cassandra, Ronsard found in Lyon.

Queens of Sheba, Meath and Connaught,

Coifed with crown, or gaudy bonnet,

Reproduction on 12X18" sheet

Code: HC Q C1 12X18
Price: US$60.00

 

 

Reproduction on 12X18" sheet

Code: HC Q C2 12X18
Price: US$60.00

 

 

Reproduction on 12X18" sheet

Code: HC Q C3 12X18
Price: US$60.00

 

 

Reproduction on 12X18" sheet

Code: HC Q C4 12X18
Price: US$60.00

 

 

Queens whose finger once did stir men,

Queens were eaten of fleas and vermin,

Queens men drew like Monna Lisa,

Or slew with drugs in Rome and Pisa,

 

 

We named Lucrezia Crivelli,

And Titian's lady with amber belly,

Queens acquainted in learned sin,

Jane of Jewry's slender shin:

Queens who cut the bogs of Glanna,

Judith of Scripture, and Gloriana,

Queens who wasted the East by proxy,

Or drove the ass-cart, a tinker's doxy,

Reproduction on 12X18" sheet

Code: HC Q C5 12X18
Price: US$60.00

 

 

Reproduction on 12X18" sheet

Code: HC Q C6 12X18
Price: US$60.00

 

 

Reproduction on 12X18" sheet

Code: HC Q C7 12X18
Price: US$60.00

 

 

Reproduction on 12X18" sheet

Code: HC Q C8 12X18
Price: US$60.00

 

 
     

Yet these are rotten - I ask their pardon -

And we've the sun on rock and garden,

These are rotten, so you're the Queen

Of all are living, or have been.

 

J M Synge

 

 

      

Reproduction on 12X18" sheet

Code: HC Q C9 12X18
Price: US$60.00