Accession number:
PML 76853
Published:
1894-1895.
Description:
86 photoprints mounted on cardboard (in 6 vol.): platinotypes, redrawn in pencil and black and white Chinese ink ; 21 x 25 cm; in larger mounts: 27 x 32 cm
Credit:
Gift of John A. Saks, 1977.
Notes:
Laid in v. 1: 4 letters, dated Nov. 27, 1901-Jan. 21, 1902, from Marsden J. Perry, Sotheby Wilkinson & Hodge, Bernard Quaritch, and Charles Scribner's Sons, concerning the non-existence of piece no. 6.
Many mounts dated on back in pencil, Feb. 23, [18]94-Aug. 15, [18]95.
Most have Burne-Jones' pencilled initials and annotations in margins.
Pieces numbered 1-5, 7-87; no. 6 never existed.
Verso of plate 76853.15 shows [damaged] platinotype of drawing before retouching.
Binding:
Loose, in six red buckram boxes, morocco spines.
Provenance:
John A. Saks.
Summary:
The series of platinotype reproductions of Burne-Jones' drawings for the Kelmscott Chaucer (originals in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge), reworked in ink by Robert Catterson-Smith for the purpose of rendering them into wood engravings.
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