Accession number:
PML 76938.5:12
Published:
[Hammersmith] : [Kelmscott Press], [1896]
Description:
1 print : wood engraving ; image: 118 x 135 mm
Credit:
Gift of John M. Crawford, Jr., 1975.
Notes:
Title devised by cataloger.
Proof impression on laid paper of a wood engraving by William Harcourt Hooper after a design by Arthur Gaskin to illustrate the Kelmscott Press edition of William Morris's The well at the world's end (Hammersmith : Printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press, 8 May 1896); ultimately rejected by Morris, along with the other designs executed by Gaskin to illustrate Morris's book.
Provenance:
John M. Crawford, Jr. (Crawford no. 67).
Summary:
Illustration shows mounted soldiers in combat, with a fallen man at their feet.
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