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Danae in the brazen chamber / Swain sc.

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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 175 mm
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.973
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in 1867; the design was, however, ultimately rejected by the editor of that periodical and the wood engraving remained unpublished until its appearance in The Century Guild Hobby horse in 1888.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in pencil at foot: Daena [sic] by Fred Sandys unpublished.
Provenance

From the library of Gordon N. Ray.

Associated names
Swain, Joseph, 1820-1909, engraver.
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.

Classification
Department
Century prints