Accession number
PML 76883.1
Creator
Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833-1898, printmaker.
Published
[London] : [Reeves and Turner], [1888]
Credit line
Gift of John M. Crawford, Jr., 1975.
Notes
Caption title.
Proof impression of an etching created by Edward Burne-Jones to serve as a frontispiece for the 1st edition of William Morris's A dream of John Ball and a king's lesson (London : Reeves and Turner, 1888); the design later reworked as a wood engraving for the Kelmscott Press edition of Morris's work.
Formerly laid into library's copy of: A dream of John Ball and A king's lesson / by William Morris (Reprinted from the 'Commonweal.') ; with an illustration by Edward Burne-Jones. London : Reeves & Turner, 1888 (see PML 76883).
Proof impression of an etching created by Edward Burne-Jones to serve as a frontispiece for the 1st edition of William Morris's A dream of John Ball and a king's lesson (London : Reeves and Turner, 1888); the design later reworked as a wood engraving for the Kelmscott Press edition of Morris's work.
Formerly laid into library's copy of: A dream of John Ball and A king's lesson / by William Morris (Reprinted from the 'Commonweal.') ; with an illustration by Edward Burne-Jones. London : Reeves & Turner, 1888 (see PML 76883).
Description
1 print : etching ; image: 124 x 108 mm; plate mark: 268 x 211 mm; sheet: 315 x 228 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed "E.B.J. proof of etching appearing in 1st ed., Reeves & Turner, 1888" in an unidentified hand on verso.
Provenance
John M. Crawford, Jr. (Crawford no. 4).
Summary
Illustrating John Ball's famous quote, with the figure of Eve seated on a rock at left with a drop spindle and Adam digging with a spade at right.
Classification
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