Hell-Fire Is Sent

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Zoom in — "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:: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
Publisher:: Paris: Ch. Motte, 1828

Description:

While flames start to rise from the floor of an inn, causing panic among a group of men, one calmly sits atop a table, observing the chaos with a faint smile on his lips.

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.

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