Caption: Fornent him there sat on his haunches a comely-looking greyhound.
- Caption:
- Fornent him there sat on his haunches a comely-looking greyhound.
- Artist:
- Yeats, Jack Butler
- Materials:
- Paper (fiber material), Ink
- Techniques:
- Photoengraving
- Title of Publication:
- Irish fairy tales
- Publisher:
- T. Fisher Unwin
- Publication place:
- London
- Publication date:
- 1892
- Curator Comment:
- This is an illustration to the story, 'The fairy greyhound', in which Paddy M'Dermid, inspired by a drunken dream, digs in search of 'a pot of money', only to be interrupted by a speaking greyhound. After various encounters he is shown the fairy underworld only to be flung from 'a great high hill'. From then until his death 'he was the greatest object in the world. He walked double and had his mouth (God bless us) where his ear should be'.
- Note on artwork:
- A man, waist-deep in a hole, looks up and raises his hat to a greyhound. The tone of the image is given by patterns of directional hatching which is made more dense where darker areas are given and omitted in the highlights.
- References:
- Snoddy (2002) and ODNB online and DIB online and Grove Art online
