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Frederick Sandys
1829-1904
The sailor's bride / FAS [monogram] ; Hooper sc.
[London : s.n., 1861?]
wood engraving
image: 87 x 128 mm; sheet: 172 x 222 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.971
Notes
Title from Reid and Ray.
Proof of an unpublished wood engraving by W.H. Hooper after an illustration by Frederick Sandys for the poem of the same title by Marian E. James; Sandys ultimately rejected Hooper's engraving of his drawing and the design was subsequently recut by Joseph Swain and appeared in Once a week, iv, April 13, 1861, p. 434.
Proof of an unpublished wood engraving by W.H. Hooper after an illustration by Frederick Sandys for the poem of the same title by Marian E. James; Sandys ultimately rejected Hooper's engraving of his drawing and the design was subsequently recut by Joseph Swain and appeared in Once a week, iv, April 13, 1861, p. 434.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in pencil at lower right: F. Sandys.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Associated names
Hooper, William Harcourt, 1834-1912, engraver.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Artist
Classification
Department
Century prints
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