Charles Ricketts ( 1866-1931) ~ Cover design for 'Saint Joan' by Bernard Shaw, pencil, pen and brown ink, heightened with white on paper.

Charles Rickett... poster... 1920...satyr

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Poster advertising The Dynasts by Thomas Hardy c1920

                                         

Amid this scene of bodies substantive
       Strange waves I sight like winds grown visible,
       Which bear men's forms on their innumerous coils,
       Twining and serpenting round and through.
       Also retracting threads like gossamers—
       Except in being irresistible—
       Which complicate with some, and balance all.

Thomas Hardy