Accession number
PML 76922.26B
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 india paper of a wood engraving by William Harcourt Hooper after a design by Edward Burne-Jones to illustrate page 240 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 left.
An impression of the later, corrected, state, after the design was recut to replace the some of the dark shadowing on Chaucer's neck and a knuckle was added to his index finger.
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 left.
An impression of the later, corrected, state, after the design was recut to replace the some of the dark shadowing on Chaucer's neck and a knuckle was added to his index finger.
Description
1 print : wood engraving ; image: 128 x 166 mm; sheet: 174 x 224 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Numbered "30" in pencil at upper right; inscribed "With Feb 13-'95" in pencil below image; with "p. 240" in pencil at bottom right.
Provenance
John M. Crawford, Jr. (Crawford no. 45).
Summary
Illustration for The Canterbury tales, showing the figure of Chaucer, at left, standing in an enclosed garden beside an angel and dictating with pen and notebook in hand.
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