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 VI, 1319 | 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 VI, 1319

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 VI, 1319

1890s

Full sheet: 11 1/16 x 9 1/16 inches (282 x 230 mm); design area: 9 7/8 x 7 1/2 inches (240 x 190 mm)

Pen and black ink and graphite on paper.

1982.76:8

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 6 1319".

Associated names

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

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