Accession number
PML 76922.57B
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 proof paper of a wood engraving by William Harcourt Hooper after a design by Edward Burne-Jones to illustrate "The legend of good women", page 438 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.
Before final corrections, an intermediary state between that in PML 76922.57A and the finished state.
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.
Before final corrections, an intermediary state between that in PML 76922.57A and the finished state.
Description
1 print : wood engraving ; image: 127 x 169 mm; sheet: 195 x 213 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Touched by the artist in china white in two place with instructions to the engraver to lighten an area on Theseus's upper arm and a detail of the background; signed with Burne-Jones's initials in pencil and annotated "Corrections made" at bottom; numbered "65" in pencil at upper left and "p. 438" at lower right.
Provenance
John M. Crawford, Jr. (Crawford no. 45).
Summary
Illustration for Chaucer's "The legend of good women", depicting Theseus in the labyrinth with the clew of yarn given to him by Ariadne.
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