Accession number
PML 76948.1
Creator
Hooper, William Harcourt, 1834-1912, engraver.
Published
[Hammersmith] : [Kelmscott Press], [1897]
Credit line
Gift of John M. Crawford, Jr., 1975.
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Proof impression on india paper of a wood engraving by William Hooper after Edward Burne-Jones, printed as a frontispiece illustration for the Kelmscott Press edition of Syr Ysambrace (Hammersmith : Printed at the Kelmscott Press, 1897).
Proof impression on india paper of a wood engraving by William Hooper after Edward Burne-Jones, printed as a frontispiece illustration for the Kelmscott Press edition of Syr Ysambrace (Hammersmith : Printed at the Kelmscott Press, 1897).
Description
1 print : wood engraving ; image: 130 x 80 mm; sheet: 189 x 139 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed by the engraver at lower left: W.H. Hooper / Aug 16 1897.
Provenance
John M. Crawford, Jr.
Summary
A man kneeling in a wood in front of a tree, with a bag and a hat; a dove with a halo appears in the tree; in the distance is a castle tower with flames or smoke emerging from it.
Classification
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