Accession number
PML 76922.46A
Creator
Hooper, William Harcourt, 1834-1912, engraver.
Published
[Hammersmith] : [Kelmscott Press], [1895]
Credit line
Gift of John M. Crawford, Jr., 1975.
Notes
Proof 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 "The parliament of fowls", page 322 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 by the engraver with his 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 by the engraver with his monogram at lower left.
Description
1 print : wood engraving ; image: 124 x 165 mm; sheet: 196 x 211 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Touched by the artist in china white and pencil with instructions to the engraver to remove lines on the rocks at right, above the shoulder of the figure standing at far left, and around the figures of the birds at lower right; signed with Burne-Jones's initials in pencil, with a note reading "Corrections made Oct. 10 95" at upper right; numbered "53" in pencil at upper left and "p. 322" at lower right.
Provenance
John M. Crawford, Jr. (Crawford no. 45).
Summary
Illustration for Chaucer's "The parliament of fowls", showing Nature seated by a stream and surrounded by birds over whom she presides as the Narrator stands at far left looking on.
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