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The Song of the Mad Prince (1917) – Harry Clarke Canvas Art Print

The Song of the Mad Prince (1917) – Harry Clarke Canvas Art Print

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Clarke made this for a friend in 1917. It never left Ireland. Now it can. Archival giclée on canvas · 50×100 cm · Ready to hang
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In 1917, Harry Clarke created something that didn't belong entirely to any world. Signed in the bottom corner and set into a walnut cabinet by Dublin craftsman James Hicks, The Song of the Mad Prince is a miniature stained-glass panel of extraordinary refinement — rubies and deep blues layered and acid-etched to produce colours that seem to glow from within. Clarke made it for his friend and patron Thomas Bodkin, who would later become Director of the National Gallery of Ireland, where the original now hangs.

The source is Walter de la Mare's poem of the same name, a riddle about grief and madness drawn from the shadow of Hamlet. Clarke answers it in glass: the Prince stands in Elizabethan dress, richly patterned in dark blue and gold, his parents shadowed behind him, the background alive with floral forms in red, green and blue. It is intimate in scale and overwhelming in atmosphere — the work of an artist who understood that the most disturbing beauty is always the most controlled.

This canvas reproduction brings that atmosphere into your home. Archival giclée inks on heavyweight cotton-polyester canvas render Clarke's layered tones — the depth of the flashed glass, the warmth of the gold — with a fidelity that flat paper cannot match. The 50×100 cm portrait format suits the composition exactly, and the 4 cm FSC-certified stretcher bars arrive ready to hang.

About Harry Clarke (1889–1931)

Dublin-born and trained in the Arts and Crafts tradition, Clarke became Ireland's finest stained-glass artist and one of its most original illustrators. Working across stained glass, book design and decorative arts, he forged an Irish Symbolism rooted in medieval craft and Gothic imagination. His contemporary George Russell called him one of the strangest geniuses of his time. He died of tuberculosis at 41.

Provenance

Commissioned by Thomas Bodkin; passed to his daughter Mrs Patrick Jameson (née Elizabeth Bodkin) in 1961; acquired by private collection 1987; now in the collection of the National Gallery of Ireland.

Exhibition History

Studio Exhibition, 33 North Frederick Street, Dublin (1918) · Arts and Crafts Society of Ireland, 6th Exhibition, Dublin (1921) · Thomas Bodkin Collection, Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin (1962) · Harry Clarke, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; Ulster Museum, Belfast; Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork (1979–80) · The Fantastic in Art: Images of the Supernatural and Uncanny, National Gallery of Ireland (2007)

Canvas Specifications

50×100 cm / 20×40″ · Premium cotton-polyester canvas, 300–350 gsm · 4 cm FSC-certified pine stretcher bars · Archival giclée printing · Fade-resistant, ready to hang

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