Spider, Web, Snake and Flowers (for "The Duchess of Malfi and The White Devil")
Henry Weston Keen|John Webster|John Lane, The Bodley Head
ca. 1930 · Pen and black ink · Drawings and Prints
Keen was a designer of book illustrations in the Symbolist tradition. In this large drawing, a snake with intricate scales winds luxuriantly around fantastic blooms, turning to face a spider at the center of the web. This macabre but elegant image was engraved and printed as the endpaper for an edition of dramatist John Webster’s tragedy The White Devil and the Duchess of Malfi, published by the Bodley Head firm in London in 1930.
- Artist
- Henry Weston Keen|John Webster|John Lane, The Bodley Head
- Date
- ca. 1930
- Medium
- Pen and black ink
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1967
