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Walter Crane
1845-1915
The Sea-Eagle Striding Out of the Forest, 71
1890s
Pen and brush and black ink, with opaque white, over graphite, on heavy wove paper.
Full sheet: 6 3/8 x 6 3/16 inches (162 x 157 mm); design area: 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches (83 x 108 mm)
Gift of Mr. John M. Crawford, Jr.
1975.54:1
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Watermark: none.
One of three preparatory drawings for twenty-three woodcut engravings by A. Leverett for "The Story of the Glittering Plain", Kelmscott Press, 1894, p. 71.
The Library was also given the printed volume which first appeared in small quarto format.
Inscription:
Artist's monogram at lower left in border.
Provenance:
John M. Crawford, Jr.
Associated names:
Morris, William, 1834-1896. Story of the Glittering Plain.
Crawford, John M., former owner.
Bibliography:
William Morris and the Art of the Book, exhibition catalogue by Paul Needham, Joseph Dunlap, and John Dreyfus, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1976, no. 81B, pl. LXXXV.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 259.
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