BIB_ID
352716
Accession number
MA 8593
Creator
Smith, Robert Catterson, 1853-
Display Date
[1917 June 1].
Credit line
Gift of John M. Crawford, Jr., 1975.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 25.9 cm
Notes
Written on the verso of Municipal School of Art, Birmingham, stationery.
With an annotation at the foot of the page by "S. C." (Sydney Cockerell).
Crawford no. 74.
With an annotation at the foot of the page by "S. C." (Sydney Cockerell).
Crawford no. 74.
Provenance
Gift of John M. Crawford, Jr., in 1975.
Summary
Concerning the cutting of the [Kelmscott] Chaucer woodcuts, noting that the process began when "Emery Walker made a very pale print of a photograph (a platino) from Sir EBJ's [Edward Burne-Jones] pencil drawing." With a further autograph statement by Emery Walker, dated 12 November 1922, and with a clipping on the verso.
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