Artwork Title: Act V, Scene 3: Lear, carrying the dead body of his daughter Cordelia: “Howl, howl, howl, howl!”

Act V, Scene 3: Lear, carrying the dead body of his daughter Cordelia: “Howl, howl, howl, howl!”

John Erskine James Yunge-Bateman

A 1930 edition of the play (first performed in 1606) has turned up on eBay; its illustrations offer a vision you might not recognize from your high school English lit class. The drawings are by John Yunge-Bateman, who has clearly studied Aubrey Beardsley’s work. Yunge (as he signs his images) has a knack for pulling out the strangest lines and making them even creepier in pictures... http://www.heavymetal.com/news/artwork/illustrated-king-lear-from-1930-is-horrifying-and-creepy/#!prettyPhoto

Uploaded on Aug 31, 2016 by Suzan Hamer

John Erskine James Yunge-Bateman

12 artworks

Artwork Title: Illustration for Shakespeare's King Lear: Act IV, Scene 7. Lear to Cordelia: “Thou art a soul in bl

Artwork Title: Illustration for Shakespeare's King Lear: Act IV, Scene 2. Goneril to Edmund

Artwork Title: Illustration for Shakespeare's King Lear: Act III, Scene 4. Lear’s Fool tells him to keep his cloth

Artwork Title: Illustration for Shakespeare's King Lear: Act II, Scene 4

Artwork Title: Illustration for Shakespeare's King Lear: Act I, Scene 2

Artwork Title: Illustration for Shakespeare's King Lear: Act I, Scene 4

Artwork Title: Illustration: Shakespeare's King Lear: Act IV, Scene 1. Crazy Edgar, now calling himself Poor Tom

Artwork Title: Illustration for Shakespeare's King Lear: Act I, Scene 3

Artwork Title: Illustration for Shakespeare's King Lear: Act I, Scene 1

Artwork Title: The Outside Viewing Tank: Directorate of Camouflage, Naval Section

Artwork Title: Illustration for a projected edition of The Song of Songs

Artwork Title: Act V, Scene 3: Lear, carrying the dead body of his daughter Cordelia: “Howl, howl, howl, howl!”

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