print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1907,1118.2
- Description
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Christ standing on a cloud with arms raised towards starry sky, looking to right at Satan, represented as a woman dragon's wings and headdress resembling snakes, standing on a globe; illustration to Thomas à Kempis's 'Of the Imitation of Christ' (London: Kegan Paul, Trench Trübner & Co. Ltd., 1898, Book III); after Laurence Housman; proof.
Wood-engraving, printed on thin paper
- Production date
- 1898
- Dimensions
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Height: 145 millimetres (image)
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Width: 85 millimetres (image)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Pasted into an album, containing 57 proofs of wood-engravings by Clemence Housman after Laurence Housman and F L Griggs; half-bound in brown cloth and leather, with tooled gold decoration, lettered on spine: 'Wood / Engravings / by / Clemence / Housman.'
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Of the Imitation of Christ
- Acquisition date
- 1907
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1907,1118.2