Accession number
PML 76922.26A
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 laid paper of a wood engraving by William Harcourt Hooper after a design by Edward Burne-Jones to illustrate page 240 of 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 the engraver'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 the engraver's monogram at lower left.
Description
1 print : wood engraving ; image: 128 x 166 mm; sheet: 195 x 213 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Touched with directions in pencil to the engraver; numbered "30" in pencil at upper left and "p. 240" at lower right.
Provenance
John M. Crawford, Jr. (Crawford no. 45).
Summary
Illustration for The Canterbury tales, showing the figure of Chaucer, at left, standing in an enclosed garden beside an angel and dictating with pen and notebook in hand.
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