Frontispiece to Wren’s City Churches

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Date: 1884
Dimensions: 22.9 x 22.3
Object Type: print
Material: paper
Technique: etching
Catalogue number: P521
Designer and maker: Sickert, Walter Richard, 1860, 1942
Credit notes: Bequeathed by Miss E. M. Pugh, 1963

This etching by Walter Sickert is a portrait of Helen Carte Boulter (born Susan Helen Couper Black; 12 May 1852 – 5 May 1913), also known as Helen Lenoir, the second wife of Rupert D’Oyly Carte, opera impresarion and owner of the Savoy Hotel. Helen was D’Oyly Carte’s assistant and second wife. She became the business manager of the D’Oyly Carte Opera Company company and responsible for the Savoy Hotel.

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Date: 1884
Object Type: print
Material: paper
Catalogue number: P514
Publisher: Century Guild
Artist: Horne, Herbert Percy, 1864, 1916
Credit notes: Presented by Miss Elinor Pugh, 1961

This print was used as a frontispiece of the Hobby Horse, Edition 1, April 1884. It illustrates the epic poem The Praise by members of the Century Guild, an English group of art enthusiasts that were most active between 1883 and 1888.

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Date: c.1863
Dimensions: 14.5 x 10.7
Object Type: print
Material: paper
Technique: wood engraving
Catalogue number: P459
Designer and maker: Burne-Jones | Edward Coley | Sir | 1833 | 1898
Printer: Dalziel Bros
Credit notes: Presented by David Gould, Esq, 1954

This wood engraving by Edward Burne-Jones appeared in the May, 1863 issue of the magazine Good Words accompanying a poem called Summer Snow:

“Soft falls the summer snow,
On the springing grass drops light,
Not like that which long ago
Fell so deadly cold and white;
This wears the Rose’s flush,
Faint, ere bloom hath quite foregone her,
Soft as maiden’s timid blush,
With the looks she loves upon her.”

Another engraving also appeared in the May issue of Good Words by T S Morten called “An Orphan’s Family Christmas” showing the figure of a young girl leaning against a mantelpiece of a fire, bearing a strong similarity to this Burne-Jones illustration. It is also possible that Burne-Jones may have had an engraving by George du Maurier in mind when he designed the illustration for Good Words; entitled ‘Non Satis’ it appeared in ‘Once a Week’ in 1860 and shows a woman in a long dress standing by a trellis covered with flowers, stooping slightly to pluck a rose from a bush beside her.

Material: paper

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