Accession number
PML 76924.1
Creator
Morris, William, 1834-1896, artist.
Published
1895?
Credit line
Gift of John M. Crawford, Jr., 1975.
Description
1 drawing
Inscriptions/Markings
In pencil at lower left: Exactly same size; small sketches on verso, including a medieval helmet and linked rings for a study of chain mail drawn in pencil, and a small study of a detail of chain mail executed in black ink and china white; at bottom verso, in pencil: p. 157.
Provenance
John M. Crawford, Jr. (Crawford 47).
Summary
Design for a large decorated initial word "At", the letters set in a grape vine background, created for the 1896 Kelmscott Press edition of the Works of Geoffrey Chaucer where it appeared on pages 152 and 423.
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