Walter Crane

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Walter Crane
1845-1915
Preparatory Design for Spencer's "Faerie Queene: A Poem in Six Books, with the Fragment Mutabilitie", ed. by Thomas J. Wise, London, G. Allen, 1895-1897: Design for Book V, 1083
1890s
Pen and black ink, over graphite, on paper; corrections in white.
Full sheet: 11 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches (285 x 223 mm); design area: 4 1/16 x 4 inches (103 x 100 mm)
Purchased on the Fellows Fund in memory of Mrs. John C. Hughes.
1982.76:6

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Watermark: none.

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Inscribed at lower edge and on verso, "Vol. 5 P 1083".

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Brentano's Book Store, New York; Sidney Katz, New York.
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Katz, Sidney, former owner.
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Faerie queene.

Bibliography: 

Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 250.

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