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Prologue and Epilogue Illustrations for Chaucer's "Troilus and Cressida"

Prologue and Epilogue Illustrations for Chaucer's "Troilus and Cressida"

(English, 1833–1898)
1894
Medium/TechniqueGraphite pencil on paper
DimensionsSight: 47.6 x 32.4cm (18 3/4 x 12 3/4in.)
Image (each): 18.9 x 24.7 cm (7 7/16 in. x 9 3/4 in.)
Credit LineHelen and Alice Colburn Fund
Accession number58.746
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
InscriptionsGraphite, top: "THE BOOK OF TROILVS [decorations] PROLOGVE" Within top image: "CHAVCER / TROY / CVPID" Within bottom image: "TROY / CHAVCER" Bottom right: "PROLOGVE / E B-J 1894"
ProvenanceP & D Colnaghi, London; from whom purchased September 18, 1958