Accession number
PML 76922.25C
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 smooth proof paper of a wood engraving by William Harcourt Hooper after a design by Edward Burne-Jones to illustrate page 223, in 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.
Printed within decorative floral and foliate border designed by William Morris, evidently a trial impression, as a different border was ultimately chosen for publication.
Signed with Hooper'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.
Printed within decorative floral and foliate border designed by William Morris, evidently a trial impression, as a different border was ultimately chosen for publication.
Signed with Hooper's monogram at lower right.
Description
1 print : wood engraving ; image: 154 x 194 mm, including border; sheet: 222 x 287 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed "No. 12" in ink above image; numbered "29" in pencil at upper right; with "p. 223" in pencil at bottom right.
Provenance
John M. Crawford, Jr. (Crawford no. 45).
Summary
Illustration for "An ABC (The prayer of Our Lady)," showing Chaucer kneeling before the Virgin Mary and infant Christ.
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