Illustrations to the book of the prophet Isaiah

Two heavy bald heads fill the foreground: one man, wrapped in a fur mantle, looks down in silence, while the other presses a hand to his brow, eyes shut in grief. Behind them a steep stair climbs to a rock ledge where six cloaked figures stand under a starry sky, some raising their arms, others hiding their faces.

Dense cross-hatching in lithographic crayon builds toward deep, velvety blacks that isolate the pale faces and starlit rock from the surrounding darkness. The abrupt shift in scale between the massive foreground heads and the small distant figures gives the print a visionary, unsettling charge.