Walter Crane | 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 Book V, 1083 | Drawings Online

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 Book V, 1083

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 Book V, 1083

1890s

Full sheet: 11 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches (285 x 223 mm); design area: 4 1/16 x 4 inches (103 x 100 mm)

Pen and black ink, over graphite, on paper; corrections in white.

1982.76:6

Purchased on the Fellows Fund in memory of Mrs. John C. Hughes.

Notes

Watermark: none.

Inscriptions/Markings

Inscribed at lower edge and on verso, "Vol. 5 P 1083".

Associated names

Katz, Sidney, former owner.
Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599. Faerie queene.

Bibliography