Accession number
PML 76922.14A
Creator
Hooper, William Harcourt, 1834-1912, engraver.
Published
[Hammersmith] : [Kelmscott Press], [1895]
Credit line
Gift of John M. Crawford, Jr., 1975.
Notes
Proof impression on Kelmscott paper (with Morris's "perch" watermark) of a wood engraving by William Harcourt Hooper after a design by Edward Burne-Jones to illustrate page 136, "The clerk'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 left.
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 left.
Description
1 print : wood engraving ; image: 127 x 167 mm; sheet: 197 x 212 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Touched in pencil with instructions to remove a white speck in the upper portion of the sky and make two corrections to Griselda's profile; signed with Burne-Jones's initials at lower left; with a note in pencil, probably in the hand of Sydney Cockerell, at lower right, reading "Corrections made Jan 30 '95".
Provenance
John M. Crawford, Jr. (Crawford no. 45).
Summary
Illustration for "The clerk's tale", showing Griselda walking alone and barefoot in a rocky wilderness.
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