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Frederick Sandys
1829-1904
Danae in the brazen chamber / Swain sc.
[London : s.n., 1867?]
wood engraving
image: 178 x 115 mm; sheet: 225 x 203 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.974
Notes
Title from Ray.
Proof of a wood engraving by Swain after an illustration by Frederick Sandys for the poem of the same title by Algernon Charles Swinburne and originally intended for publication in Once a week in 1867; the design was, however, ultimately rejected by the editor of that periodical and the wood engraving remained unpublished until its appearance in The Century Guild Hobby horse in 1888.
Proof of a wood engraving by Swain after an illustration by Frederick Sandys for the poem of the same title by Algernon Charles Swinburne and originally intended for publication in Once a week in 1867; the design was, however, ultimately rejected by the editor of that periodical and the wood engraving remained unpublished until its appearance in The Century Guild Hobby horse in 1888.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Associated names
Swain, Joseph, 1820-1909, engraver.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Bibliography
Reproduced in: The illustrator and the book in England from 1790 to 1914 / Gordon N. Ray. New York ; London : Oxford Univ. Pr., 1976, p. 108.
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Classification
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Century prints
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