THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER Original Print by Elijah John

 
Original linocut by Elijah John, printed from the original block by Nomad Letterpress. 
 
‘During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was — but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit.(1) I say insufferable; for the feeling was unrelieved by any of that half-pleasurable, because poetic, sentiment, with which the mind usually receives even the sternest natural images of the desolate or terrible. I looked upon the scene before me — upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain — upon the bleak walls — upon the vacant eye-like windows — upon a few rank sedges — and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees — with an utter depression of soul’

A limited edition of only 30 copies printed on newly commissioned handmade paper from the historic Velké Losiny paper mill in the Czech Republic, and bears the Nepēnthé watermark. 
 
The print paper measures 250 x 360mm and is signed and numbered by the artist. 
 
This is not a pre-order, these prints are in stock and can be shipped immediately! 

*Please note that only some prints carry the watermark, as a larger sheet is of course cut down to print upon. 
 
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