Walter Crane | 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 IV, 811 | Drawings Online

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 IV, 811

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 IV, 811

1890s

Full sheet: 11 1/4 x 8 7/8 inches (286 x 227 mm); design area: 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (190 x 139 mm)

Pen and black ink, over graphite, on paper.

1982.76:4

Purchased on the Fellows Fund in memory of Mrs. John C. Hughes.

Notes

Watermark: none.

Inscriptions/Markings

Inscribed at lower edge and on verso, in graphite, "Vol. 4 Page 811".

Associated names

Katz, Sidney, former owner.
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Faerie queene.

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