Accession number
PML 76922.37C
Creator
Hooper, William Harcourt, 1834-1912, engraver.
Published
[Hammersmith] : [Kelmscott Press], [1895]
Credit line
Gift of John M. Crawford, Jr., 1975.
Notes
Proof on Kelmscott paper (with Morris's "perch" watermark) of a wood engraving by William Harcourt Hooper after a design by Edward Burne-Jones to illustrate "The romaunt of the rose", page 272 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: 127 x 169 mm; sheet: 197 x 213 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Numbered "44" in pencil at upper right; with "p. 272" 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 Chastity(?) greeting Bialacoil and the narrator.
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