Accession number
PML 76922.29A
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 "The romaunt of the rose", page 245 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 right.
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 right.
Description
1 print : wood engraving ; image: 128 x 166 mm; sheet: 197 x 217 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Touched by the artist with china white and pencil, instructing the engraver to make a minor change to the ankle of the figure of Poverty; signed by Burne-Jones with his initials, with the word "Corrected" in pencil at lower right, with a check mark; numbered "34" at upper left and "p. 245" at lower right.
Provenance
John M. Crawford, Jr. (Crawford no. 45).
Summary
Illustration for Chaucer's translation of the Roman de la rose, showing the Lover outside the garden walls and standing before the figures of "Sorrowe", "Ipocrisye", and "Povert[y]".
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