Accession number
PML 76922.38A
Creator
Hooper, William Harcourt, 1834-1912, engraver.
Published
[Hammersmith] : [Kelmscott Press], [1895]
Credit line
Gift of John M. Crawford, Jr., 1975.
Notes
Proof 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 273 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.
From a drawing by Burne-Jones, the design reworked for transfer to woodblock by Robert Catterson-Smith, and subsequently engraved by William Harcourt Hooper.
Description
1 print : wood engraving ; image: 125 x 166 mm; sheet: 195 x 209 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Touched in red ink by the artist with directions to the engraver to lighten two areas of the design; signed by Burne-Jones with his initials and dated "July 26"; with note in pen at top, probably in the hand of Sydney Cockerell, saying "Corrections made July 29 '95"; numbered "45" in pencil at upper right and "p. 273" in lower right hand corner.
Provenance
John M. Crawford, Jr. (Crawford no. 45).
Summary
Illustration for Chaucer's translation of the Roman de la rose, showing the Lover and Bialacoil(?), at left, evidently retreating from the figures of "Danger" (a giant with a club), "Wicked Tongue" (a young man wearing a robe decorated with open mouths), and "Shame"(?) (a young woman at far right).
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