Accession number:
PML 76938.5:8
Published:
[Hammersmith] : [Kelmscott Press], [1896]
Description:
1 print : wood engraving ; image: 88 x 63 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.
Impression printed on the same sheet as PML 76938.5:7.
Provenance:
John M. Crawford, Jr. (Crawford no. 67).
Summary:
Illustration shows a bearded man riding beside a lion which he leads on a chain.
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