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Proof of a wood engraving for "The knight's tale", designed by Edward Burne-Jones, for page 9 of the 1896 Kelmscott edition of The works of Geoffrey Chaucer [print].

Accession number
PML 76922.1B
Creator
Hooper, William Harcourt, 1834-1912, engraver.
Published
[Hammersmith] : [Kelmscott Press], [1896]
Credit line
Gift of John M. Crawford, Jr., 1975.
Notes
Proof impression on laid paper of a wood engraving by William Harcourt Hooper after a design by Edward Burne-Jones to illustrate page 9, "The knight's tale", in William Morris's Kelmscott Press edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Hammersmith : Printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, 8 May 1896).
From a drawing by Burne-Jones, the design reworked for transfer to woodblock by Robert Catterson-Smith, and subsequently engraved by William Harcourt Hooper.
Signed with Hooper's monogram at lower right.
Description
1 print : wood engraving ; image: 132 x 170 mm; sheet: 144 x 208 mm
Provenance
John M. Crawford, Jr. (Crawford no. 45).
Summary
Illustration for "The Knight's Tale", with the knight looking out through a grating at a woman (Emily) holding a book and standing in a garden beside a fountain at right.
Classification
Department