Title-page (Illustration to The Fables of Jean de la Fontaine, Vol. I, translated by Sir Edward Marsh, Heinemann, London and Random House, New York, 1931) (1931)

Stephen Gooden

engraving

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London

Title-page (Illustration to The Fables of Jean de la Fontaine, Vol. I, translated by Sir Edward Marsh, Heinemann, London and Random House, New York, 1931) (1931)

Photo credit: Trustees of the British Museum

Classification:

Book Illustration, Print

Physical Object Description:

Title page; puppeteer (la Fontaine) drawing back curtain of marionette theatre, holding various puppets, within architectural frame; final state; proof of engraved illustration, printed in brown ink with plate-tone, to 'The Fables of Jean de la Fontaine', Vol. I, translated by Sir Edward Marsh and published by Heinemann, London and Random House, New York, 1931. 1931. Lettered on plate: "THE FABLES OF/JEAN DE LA FONTAINE/Translated into the English Verse by/EDWARD MARSH/With Twenty-six Engravings on copper by/STEPHEN GOODEN/VOL/I/London/WILLIAM HEINEMANN LTD/New York RANDOM HOUSE/1931". Signed and dated.

Technique:

Engraving

Dimensions:

21.2 x 12.4 cm

Accession Number:

1932,0312.34

Credit:

Presented by the Contemporary Art Society, 1932

Scheme:

Gift

Ownership history:

Gifted by Sir Edward Marsh (1872-1953) to the Contemporary Art Society, 1925; presented to Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London, 1932

Relationship:

Prints and Drawings Department, British Museum, London Edward 'Eddie' Howard Marsh

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