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Frederick Sandys
1829-1904
Danae in the brazen chamber / Swain sc.
[London : sn, 1867?]
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.973
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[London : s.n., 1867?]
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Inscription:
Inscribed in pencil at foot: Daena [sic] by Fred Sandys unpublished.
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in 1867; the design was, however, ultimately rejected by the editor of that periodical and the wood engraving remained unpublished until its appearance in The Century Guild Hobby horse in 1888.
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