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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 IV, 872
1890s
Pen and black ink over faint indications in graphite, on paper; correction in white.
Full sheet: 5 1/2 x 6 11/16 inches (140 x 169 mm); design area: 2 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches (58 x 113 mm)
Purchased on the Fellows Fund in memory of Mrs. John C. Hughes.
1982.76:5
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Watermark: none.
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Inscribed at lower edge and on verso, in graphite "Vol. 4 Page 872".
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. 250.
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