Accession number
PML 76922.56B
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 legend of good women", page 437 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.
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.
Description
1 print : wood engraving ; image: 125 x 167 mm; sheet: 212 x 290 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Numbered "64" in pencil at upper right; with "p. 437" in pencil at bottom right.
Provenance
John M. Crawford, Jr. (Crawford no. 45).
Summary
Illustration for Chaucer's "The legend of good women", depicting Ariadne giving a ball of thread to Theseus, who is behind bars, with Phaedra cradling the sword to the right, with the Minotaur's labyrinth in the background.
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