Accession number
PML 76922.27D
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 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 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 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.
Signed with the engraver's monogram at lower right.
Description
1 print : wood engraving ; image: 123 x 168 mm; sheet: 197 x 292 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
With "p. 241" in pencil, upside down, at upper left; numbered "31" in upper right.
Provenance
John M. Crawford, Jr. (Crawford no. 45).
Summary
Illustration for the opening of Chaucer's translation of the Roman de la rose, showing the interior of a bedroom where "The Dreamer" lies in bed with his eyes closed as a second man exits the room through a doorway at right.
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