print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1912,0612.361
- Description
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Proof of an illustration designed by Burne-Jones for the Kelmscott "Chaucer": p.385, 'The Book of the Duchesse', with a woman seated at a chess board, her elbow on a giant wheel, looks at a man who wrings his hands. 1896
Wood-engraving on India paper
- Production date
- 1896
- Dimensions
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Height: 126 millimetres
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Width: 168 millimetres (image area)
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer
- Acquisition date
- 1912
- Acquisition notes
- One of a series of 86 proofs of the illustrations to the Kelmscott Chaucer purchased from Swain (1912,0612.308 to 392) and subsequently mounted into an album
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1912,0612.361
