Accession number
PML 76924.9
Published
[Hammersmith, London] : [Kelmscott Press] [1895].
Credit line
Gift of John M. Crawford, Jr., 1975.
Notes
The Morgan Library owns the William Morris's original drawing after which this wood engraved initial was cut (see PML 76924.2).
Description
1 print : wood engraving, sheet: 150 x 210 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Dated in pencil at lower right: 29 Nov/95.
Provenance
John M. Crawford, Jr.
Summary
Proof of a wood engraving after a design by William Morris of a large decorated initial word "After", the letters set in a vine background, created for the Kelmscott Press edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer where it appears on page 421.
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