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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 I, 60
1890s
Pen and black ink, over graphite, on paper; corrections in white and yellow.
Full sheet: 11 1/4 x 8 7/8 inches (285 x 225 mm); design area: 2 3/4 x 3 5/8 inches (70 x 92 mm)
Purchased on the Fellows Fund in memory of Mrs. John C. Hughes.
1982.76:1
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Watermark: none.
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Inscribed at lower edge and on verso, in graphite, "Vol. I Page 60".
Provenance:
Brentano's Book Store, New York; Sidney Katz, New York.
Associated names:
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. 249-250.
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