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Adonais

Print
1900 (made)
Artist/Maker
Ashbee (artist)
Place of origin
Britain (made)

Woodcut illustration on paper, published by Essex House Press. Proof of block cut by W. H. Hooper

Object details

Categories
Prints
Illustration
Object type
Print
TitleAdonais
Materials and techniques
Woodcut illustration
Paper
Woodcut
Brief description
Illustration by Charles Robert Ashbee to 'Adonais' by Percy Bysshe Shelley. Great Britain, 1900.
Physical description
Woodcut illustration on paper, published by Essex House Press. Proof of block cut by W. H. Hooper
Dimensions
  • Height: 6.5in
  • Width: 5.1in
Credit line
Given by the Artist
Bibliographic reference
Ashbee was a member of the Order of Chaeronea, a secret society founded by penal reformer and poet George Cecil Ives in 1897 for the cultivation of a homosexual ethos. To conceal his sexuality at a time when homosexuality was illegal, Ashbee married the accomplished musician Janet Forbes in 1898 and had a rather progressive, atypical marriage resulting in four daughters. The pair wrote a collaborative journal and Janet became a valued member of the Arts and Crafts community, embracing the wider socialist concepts of the movement by setting up a craft cooperative with her husband. Ashbee also espoused the work of Edward Carpenter, philosopher of the simple life and early gay rights campaigner, who he considered his mentor.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.740-1921

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O705332/adonais-print-ashbee/
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