Accession number
PML 76922.46F
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 parliament of fowls", page 322 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 by the engraver with his monogram at lower left.
Earlier, uncorrected state, before the rocks at right, area above the shoulder of the figure standing at far left, and lines around the figures of the birds at lower right were retouched 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 by the engraver with his monogram at lower left.
Earlier, uncorrected state, before the rocks at right, area above the shoulder of the figure standing at far left, and lines around the figures of the birds at lower right were retouched by the engraver.
Description
1 print : wood engraving ; image: 124 x 165 mm; sheet: 210 x 292 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Numbered "53" in pencil at upper right; with "p. 322" in pencil at bottom right.
Provenance
John M. Crawford, Jr. (Crawford no. 45).
Summary
Illustration for Chaucer's "The parliament of fowls", showing Nature seated by a stream and surrounded by birds over whom she presides as the Narrator stands at far left looking on.
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