Accession number
PML 76922.32F
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 paper of a wood engraving by William Harcourt Hooper after a design by Edward Burne-Jones to illustrate "The romaunt of the rose", page 252 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.
Before retouching of the faces and hair of the two figures by the engraver.
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.
Before retouching of the faces and hair of the two figures by the engraver.
Description
1 print : wood engraving ; image: 128 x 165 mm; sheet: 195 x 212 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Numbered "37" and "p.252" in pencil at upper left; numbered "37" in pencil at upper right; with "p. 252" in pencil at bottom right.
Provenance
John M. Crawford, Jr. (Crawford no. 45).
Summary
Illustration for Chaucer's translation of the Roman de la rose, showing two female figures in the garden, one (at left) dressed in a rich robe and leading the other by the hand, the second (at right) dressed more simply and scattering coins from a purse.
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