Specimen Page for Kelmscott Press Edition of William Caxton’s “Vitas Patrum”

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Date: c.1865-68
Dimensions: 68 x 51.3
Object Type: print
Technique: wood engraving
Catalogue number: K729
Designer: Burne-Jones | Edward Coley | Sir | 1833 | 1898
Maker: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Credit notes: WMG purchase, 1956

This is one of a series of illustrations to ‘The Story of Cupid and Psyche’ for the projected edition of ‘The Earthly Paradise’ begun in September 1865. The illustrations were engraved on wood by Morris and his friends and associates in the Firm. Burne-Jones did illustrations for some of the other tales in ‘The Earthly Paradise’, but the Cupid and Psyche wood engravings were the most completed part of the project which was abandoned in 1868 after trial pages, set in Basle and Caslon types at the Chiswick Press, did not prove satisfactory.

In 1881, a few copies of these sets of illustrations were made, apparently by Morris himself, by friction printing. A second series (numbering about 8 sets according to Sydney Cockerell) was pulled for Morris by Emery Walker at his premises at 16 Cliffords Inn during the Kelmscott Press years; all these were on Kelmscott Press paper. One of these sets, given to Cockerell by Jane Morris c.1898, is bound into a single volume (K775) owned by the William Morris Gallery. Other sets are in the Pierpont Morgan Library (Gift of John M. Crawford) and the Fitzwilliam Museum (J.R. Holliday Bequest 1927).

Drawings related to the Cupid and Psyche illustrations and other tales from ‘The Earthly Paradise’ are in the following collections: A volume of 86 preliminary drawings of various sizes executed in pencil, pen and ink or chalk, is now in Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery (648’27). A series of 47 finished designs in pencil on tracing paper was given by Burne-Jones to Ruskin, who presented them to Oxford University in 1875 (now in the Ashmolean). Another volume of 39 drawings formerly in the collection of F.S. Ellis is in the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; 36 of these are on tracing paper, the remaining 3 on drawing paper; 21 relate to the Cupid and Psyche story though some are variants of scenes which were never engraved on wood; others are for the Story of Pygmalion and The Hill of Venus.

This version is inscribed in Cockerell’s hand in ink ‘Early proof before the margin was trimmed’.

Details

Date: c.1865-68
Dimensions: 68 x 51.3
Object Type: print
Technique: wood engraving
Catalogue number: K728
Designer: Burne-Jones | Edward Coley | Sir | 1833 | 1898
Maker: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Credit notes: WMG purchase, 1954

This version is inscribed in Cockerell’s hand in ink ‘Early proof before the margin was trimmed’.

Details

Date: c.1865-68
Dimensions: 68 x 51.3
Object Type: print
Technique: wood engraving
Catalogue number: K727
Designer: Burne-Jones | Edward Coley | Sir | 1833 | 1898
Maker: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Credit notes: WMG purchase, 1954

This version is inscribed in Cockerell’s hand in ink ‘Early proof before the margin was trimmed’.

Details

Date: c.1865-68
Dimensions: 68 x 51.3
Object Type: print
Technique: wood engraving
Catalogue number: K726
Designer: Burne-Jones | Edward Coley | Sir | 1833 | 1898
Maker: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Credit notes: WMG purchase, 1956

This version is inscribed in Cockerell’s hand in ink ‘Early proof before the margin was trimmed’.

Details

Date: c.1865-68
Dimensions: 68 x 51.3
Object Type: print
Technique: wood engraving
Catalogue number: K725
Designer: Burne-Jones | Edward Coley | Sir | 1833 | 1898
Maker: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Credit notes: WMG purchase, 1956

This version is inscribed in Cockerell’s hand in ink ‘Early proof before the margin was trimmed’.

Details

Date: c.1865-68
Dimensions: 68 x 51.3
Object Type: print
Technique: wood engraving
Catalogue number: K724
Designer: Burne-Jones | Edward Coley | Sir | 1833 | 1898
Maker: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Credit notes: WMG purchase, 1956

This version is inscribed in Cockerell’s hand in ink ‘Early proof before the margin was trimmed’.

Details

Date: c.1865-68
Dimensions: 68 x 51.3
Object Type: print
Technique: wood engraving
Catalogue number: K723
Designer: Burne-Jones | Edward Coley | Sir | 1833 | 1898
Maker: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Credit notes: WMG purchase, 1956

This version is inscribed in Cockerell’s hand in ink ‘Early proof before the margin was trimmed’.

Details

Date: c.1865-68
Dimensions: 68 x 51.3
Object Type: print
Technique: wood engraving
Catalogue number: K722
Designer: Burne-Jones | Edward Coley | Sir | 1833 | 1898
Maker: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Credit notes: WMG purchase, 1956

This version is inscribed in Cockerell’s hand in ink ‘Early proof before the margin was trimmed’.

Details

Date: c.1866-68
Dimensions: 13 x 18.7
Object Type: print
Technique: wood engraving
Catalogue number: K789
Designer: Burne-Jones | Edward Coley | Sir | 1833 | 1898
Maker: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Credit notes: WMG purchase, 1956

This version is inscribed in Cockerell’s hand in ink ‘Early proof before the margin was trimmed’.

Details

Date: c.1866-68
Dimensions: 14.8 x 11.7
Object Type: print
Technique: wood engraving
Catalogue number: K784
Designer: Burne-Jones | Edward Coley | Sir | 1833 | 1898
Maker: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Credit notes: WMG purchase, 1956

This version is inscribed in Cockerell’s hand in ink ‘Early proof before the margin was trimmed’.

Details

Date: c.1866-68
Dimensions: 14.6 x 11.7
Object Type: print
Technique: wood engraving
Catalogue number: K729a
Designer: Burne-Jones | Edward Coley | Sir | 1833 | 1898
Maker: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Credit notes: WMG purchase, 1956

This version is inscribed in Cockerell’s hand in ink ‘Early proof before the margin was trimmed’.

Details

Date: c.1866-68
Dimensions: 41.1 x 23
Object Type: print
Technique: wood engraving
Catalogue number: K714
Designer: Burne-Jones | Edward Coley | Sir | 1833 | 1898
Maker: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Credit notes: WMG purchase, 1954

This version is inscribed in Cockerell’s hand in ink ‘Early proof before the margin was trimmed’.

Details

Date: c.1866
Dimensions: 20.3 x 13.3
Object Type: print
Material: paper
Technique: woodcut
Catalogue number: K26
Artist: Burne-Jones | Edward Coley | Sir | 1833 | 1898

This is one of a series of illustrations to ‘The Story of Cupid and Psyche’ for the projected edition of ‘The Earthly Paradise’ begun in September 1865. The illustrations were engraved on wood by Morris and his friends and associates in the Firm. This particular illustration was engraved by Elizabeth Burden, it was the only one she did for the series. Burne-Jones did illustrations for some of the other tales in ‘The Earthly Paradise’, but the Cupid and Psyche wood engravings were the most completed part of the project which was abandoned in 1868 after trial pages, set in Basle and Caslon types at the Chiswick Press, did not prove satisfactory.

Details

Date: c.1866
Dimensions: 15.6 x 22.7
Object Type: print
Material: paper
Technique: woodcut
Catalogue number: K21a
Artist: Burne-Jones | Edward Coley | Sir | 1833 | 1898

This is one of a series of illustrations to ‘The Story of Cupid and Psyche’ for the projected edition of ‘The Earthly Paradise’ begun in September 1865. The illustrations were engraved on wood by Morris and his friends and associates in the Firm. This particular illustration was engraved by Elizabeth Burden, it was the only one she did for the series. Burne-Jones did illustrations for some of the other tales in ‘The Earthly Paradise’, but the Cupid and Psyche wood engravings were the most completed part of the project which was abandoned in 1868 after trial pages, set in Basle and Caslon types at the Chiswick Press, did not prove satisfactory.

Details

Date: c.1866
Dimensions: 15.6 x 22.7
Object Type: print
Material: paper
Technique: woodcut
Catalogue number: K21
Artist: Burne-Jones | Edward Coley | Sir | 1833 | 1898

This is one of a series of illustrations to ‘The Story of Cupid and Psyche’ for the projected edition of ‘The Earthly Paradise’ begun in September 1865. The illustrations were engraved on wood by Morris and his friends and associates in the Firm. This particular illustration was engraved by Elizabeth Burden, it was the only one she did for the series. Burne-Jones did illustrations for some of the other tales in ‘The Earthly Paradise’, but the Cupid and Psyche wood engravings were the most completed part of the project which was abandoned in 1868 after trial pages, set in Basle and Caslon types at the Chiswick Press, did not prove satisfactory.

Details

Dimensions: 17.25 x 23.15
Object Type: print
Material: ink on paper
Technique: woodblock
Catalogue number: K622
Designer: Mackmurdo | Arthur Heygate | 1851 | 1942
Designer: Horne, Herbert Percy, 1864, 1916
Credit notes: Mackmurdo bequest, 1942

Advertising booklet for the Century Guild, featuring a woodblock design of knights on horseback on the cover. The text within the booklet describes the Century Guild’s services as affordable designers and producers of furniture, metalwork, textiles, wallpapers, stained glass and decorative painting. “…While recognizing the cost, which, of necessity, accompanies decoration in its more sumptuous and elaborate forms, Messrs. Mackmurdo and Horne are prepared to decorate and furnish houses in a simple, yet effective manner, which, while endeavouring to fulfil the more exacting canons of taste, will not be beyond the means of those, to whom expense is a matter of material concern.”

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Date: 1919
Dimensions: 37.5 x 43.5
Object Type: print
Material: paper
Technique: etching
Catalogue number: P823
Artist: Brangwyn, Frank, Sir (1867 - 1956)
Credit notes: Gift of Richard and Eileen Smithies

This etching shows the Arrival Procession of the Festa della Madonna della Salute in front of the Basilica di Santa Maria della Salute at the mouth of the Grand Canal in Venice. Sir Frank Brangwyn made multiple images of Venice, including two others showing the church of Santa Maria della Salute that are also in the William Morris Gallery’s Collection. The festival of Santa Maria della Salute is held every year in Venice on 21st November, and comemmorates the end of a plague that devastated Venice bewteen 1630 and 1631.

Details

Date: c.1866-68
Object Type: print
Technique: wood engraving
Catalogue number: K719
Designer: Burne-Jones | Edward Coley | Sir | 1833 | 1898
Maker: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Credit notes: WMG purchase, 1954

Details

Date: c.1866-68
Dimensions: Framed dimensions: 36 x 30
Object Type: print
Technique: wood engraving
Catalogue number: K712
Designer: Burne-Jones | Edward Coley | Sir | 1833 | 1898
Maker: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Credit notes: WMG purchase, 1954

Details

Date: c.1866-68
Object Type: print
Technique: wood engraving
Catalogue number: K716
Designer: Burne-Jones | Edward Coley | Sir | 1833 | 1898
Maker: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Credit notes: WMG purchase, 1954

Details

Date: c.1866-68
Dimensions: 10.5 x 15.6
Object Type: print
Technique: wood engraving
Catalogue number: K714a
Designer: Burne-Jones | Edward Coley | Sir | 1833 | 1898
Maker: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Credit notes: WMG purchase, 1956

This version is inscribed in Cockerell’s hand in ink ‘Early proof before the margin was trimmed’.

Details

Date: c.1868
Dimensions: 10.7 x 16.6
Object Type: print
Technique: wood engraving
Catalogue number: K717
Designer: Burne-Jones | Edward Coley | Sir | 1833 | 1898
Maker: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Credit notes: WMG purchase, 1954

This version is inscribed in Cockerell’s hand in ink ‘Early proof before the margin was trimmed’.

Details

Date: c.1866-68
Dimensions: 10.5 x 7.6
Object Type: print
Technique: wood engraving
Catalogue number: K715
Designer: Burne-Jones | Edward Coley | Sir | 1833 | 1898
Maker: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Credit notes: WMG purchase, 1954

Details

Date: c.1868
Dimensions: 10.7 x 16.6
Object Type: print
Technique: wood engraving
Catalogue number: K718
Designer: Burne-Jones | Edward Coley | Sir | 1833 | 1898
Maker: Morris, William, 1834, 1896
Credit notes: WMG purchase, 1954

Object Type: print

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