Accession number:
PML 76915.3
Published:
[London], [1897]
Description:
1 print : platinotype ; image: 278 x 141 mm; mount: 288 x 150 mm
Credit:
Gift of John M. Crawford, Jr., 1975.
Notes:
Platinotype of a drawing by Edward Burne-Jones originally made for a planned but ultimately abandoned edition of William Morris's poem "Love is enough"; the platinotype facsimiles of the drawing were later made circa 1897 to assist in the preparation of William Hooper's wood engraving after Burne-Jones's design, which appeared as a tailpiece illustration on page 91 of the 1898 Kelmscott Press edition of Morris's poem. Cf. Needham.
Variant Title:
Love is enough
Inscriptions/Markings:
Retouched in black ink and china white; inscribed in pencil on the right-hand edge of mount: Inscription wanted for altar; and: 8 3/16 high.
Provenance:
John M. Crawford, Jr.
Summary:
An angel on a throne, crowns a man who stands in front with a woman beside him; angels with harps on the left and cherubs on a gallery.
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