Sujet

Spenser's "Faerie Queene", 1895. Creator: Walter Crane.

Légende

Spenser's "Faerie Queene", 1895. '"CANTO IX. His loves and lignage Arthur tells: The knight's knit friendly bands: Sir Trevisan flies from Despayre, Whom Redcrosse knight withstands". The completion of the first book of the "Faerie Queene" in the really gorgeous (it is a genuine Elizabethan word and not displaced) edition which Mr. Allen has enlisted Mr. Walter Crane to produce, gives a better opportunity of estimating it than the first part alone could afford...the single books even in this stately quarto form will not make cumbrous volumes; while the ample space allotted enables the peculiar beauty of the Spenserian stanza to unfold itself and be enjoyed after a fashion impossible when, as in the ordinary editions, ten or a dozen such stanzas are crowded on a page. Of course the ideal thing would, be to have Spenser actually illuminated - to catch your artist, buy much vellum, and shut the two up together till something like the wonderful works of old were produced. But in default of this the present issue provides as good a substitute as can reasonably be expected'. George Saintsbury. Illustration by Walter Crane from "Spenser's Faerie Queene" edited by T. J. Wise, (London: George Allen), published in "Illustrated London News", 1895.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM26A08_066

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Droits gérés

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4,5Mo (588,7Ko) / 16,8cm x 6,7cm / 1981 x 789 (300dpi)

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female women woman people male man men arts writing art book guy sleep sleeping British text century Art Nouveau Britain asleep newspapers press knight print literature concept script B&W lettering review engraved engraving 19th century poem poetry black & white black and white B W nineteenth century The Print Collector book illustration Illustrated London News wood engraving ILN newspaper woodcut wood engraving George Edmund Walter Crane Edmund Spenser Spenser Wise Crane Walter Faerie Queene blackletter gothic script Thomas James 19th-century The Illustrated London News Thomas James Wise T.J. Wise George Saintsbury Saintsbury George Edward Bateman Saintsbury George Edward Bateman