Accession number
PML 76922.43C
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 parliament of fowls", page 316 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.
From a drawing by Burne-Jones, the design reworked for transfer to woodblock by Robert Catterson-Smith, and subsequently engraved by William Harcourt Hooper.
Description
1 print : wood engraving ; image: 126 x 167 mm; sheet: 193 x 214 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Numbered "50" in pencil at upper right; with "p. 316" in pencil at bottom right.
Provenance
John M. Crawford, Jr. (Crawford no. 45).
Summary
Illustration for Chaucer's "The parliament of fowls", showing Cupid kneeling and forging a fire, while his daugther, Wille [i.e. Desire] stands behind him tempering his arrows in a spring.
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