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Walter Crane
1845-1915
Preparatory Design for Spencer's "Faerie Queene: A Poem in Six Books, with the Fragment Mutabilitie", ed. by Thomas J. Wise, London, G. Allen, 1895-1897: Design for cover of each of six books
1890s
Pen and black ink and graphite on paper.
Full sheet: 11 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches (285 x 216 mm); design area: 7 x 4 11/16 inches (178 x 119 mm)
Purchased on the Fellows Fund in memory of Mrs. John C. Hughes.
1982.76:2
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Watermark: none.
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Inscribed at lower edge and on verso, in graphite, "Vol. I Facing Page 80".
Provenance:
Brentano's Book Store, New York; Sidney Katz, New York.
Associated names:
Katz, Sidney, former owner.
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Faerie queene.
Bibliography:
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 250.
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