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Proof of a wood engraving for "Troilus and Criseyde", designed by Edward Burne-Jones, for page 518 of the 1896 Kelmscott edition of The works of Geoffrey Chaucer [print].

Accession number
PML 76922.75A
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 "Troilus and Criseyde", page 518 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 right.
Description
1 print : wood engraving ; image: 126 x 166 mm; sheet: 191 x 211 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Numbered "83" in pencil at upper left; inscribed with 2 x's in pencil above image; with "p. 518" in pencil at bottom right.
Provenance
John M. Crawford, Jr. (Crawford no. 45).
Summary
Illustration for Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde", depicting Calkas, agreeing to a treaty from the Greek camp to exchange Criseyde for Antenor.
Classification
Department