DEMONS - FAUST - MEPHISTOPHELES - MARGARET Still intoxicated with the secret liquor, Faust sees Margaret in the street, and (under the influence of the liquor) thinks she is the most beautiful woman in the world. He insists that Mephistopheles obtain her for his nefarious purposes. Mephistophelese says that she has just come from church, where she was absolved of all her sins. As an innocent creature, he has no power over her, and it is not possible to take her by force. Faust insists that she must be his, and in bed with him by night time. Faust then orders Mephistopheles to find a suita
DEMONS - FAUST - MEPHISTOPHELES - MARGARET Still intoxicated with the secret liquor, Faust sees Margaret in the street, and (under the influence of the liquor) thinks she is the most beautiful woman in the world. He insists that Mephistopheles obtain her for his nefarious purposes. Mephistophelese says that she has just come from church, where she was absolved of all her sins. As an innocent creature, he has no power over her, and it is not possible to take her by force. Faust insists that she must be his, and in bed with him by night time. Faust then orders Mephistopheles to find a suitable present that he might give to her. Engraving No. 10 in Umrisse Goethe's Faust. Gezeichnet von Moritz Retsch, 1836. There were two distinct early editions of the Retsch series of drawings for Goethe's play, Faust. The finest was Umrisse Goethe's Faust. Gezeichnet von Moritz Retsch, 1836 edition, printed in both Stuttgart and Augsburg. There were 29 plates in this edition, for the first part of the play, and a further 11 for the second part. Another edition was that engraved by Henry Moses, in 1820: Retsch's Series of Twenty-Six Outlines, Illustrative of Goethe's Tragedy of Faust, which had fewer plates for the first part, and none at all for the second part. The differences between the plates are mainly iconographical - for example, the Moses print dispenses with the image of God in plate 1, leaving only a pregnant glowing space. Again, Moses is inclined to make the vision of the woman (his plate 6, but plate 8 of the 1836 edition) more sensual, leaving her naked to the waist, whilst the German version has her fully clothed. At best these are merely graphic edits of the original drawings, and both sets are of very high quality. I have selected the plate which seemed more likely to respond to modern reproduction techniques (in each of these editions, the finer lines of
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