Accession number
PML 76924.6
Creator
Morris, William, 1834-1896, artist.
Published
1894.
Credit line
Gift of John M. Crawford, Jr., 1975.
Notes
The Morgan Library owns a proof of a wood engraving by Charles Keates after this drawing, dated October 31 1894 (see PML 16924.10).
Description
1 drawing.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in pencil at bottom with dimensions and instructions indicating the intended width of the design; in pencil in the margin at right: for Mr. Keates [i.e., the wood engraver Charles E. Keates]; in pen above drawing in the hand of Sydney Cockerell: Big letter for Chaucer; in pencil on verso: SC Cockerell; and: p. 112, 124.
Provenance
John M. Crawford, Jr. (Crawford 47).
Summary
Design for a large decorated initial word "In", the letters set in a floral vine background, created for the Kelmscott Press edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer where it appears on pages 112, 134, 160, and 445.
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