Aucassin and Nicolette
Print
1901 (published)
1901 (published)
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Wood engraving illustrating 'Aucassin et Nicolette', a medieval French story by an unknown author
Object details
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| Title | Aucassin and Nicolette (series title) |
| Brief description | Wood engraving by Paul Woodroffe illustrating Aucassin and Nicolette, engraved by Clemence Housman. Published by John Murray, 1901. |
| Physical description | Wood engraving illustrating 'Aucassin et Nicolette', a medieval French story by an unknown author |
| Bibliographic reference | The following excerpt is by Dr Simon Cooke from an article entitled 'Paul Woodroffe: Illustrator of the Nineties' published on The Victorian Web (22 April 2009):
'Many of his contemporaries in Arts and Crafts were unconventional and outspoken, yet Woodroffe was anything but flamboyant or excessive. Constrained by a severe spirituality, he was suspicious of the bohemianism of Ashbee and his fellow workers and during his early years cut an incongruous figure...
Though pleasantly spoken and sociable when he was playing in amateur dramatics or visiting the theatre (Housman, Unexpected Years, p. 185), he was regarded by his friends as introspective and ungiving; he collaborated with Laurence Housman and his sister Clemence in the production of Aucassin and Nicolette, and yet they never found him engaging. Clemence, who engraved his designs on wood, described him as their ‘bête grise’, and Janet Ashbee, the wife of the exuberant C. R. Ashbee, called him ‘bachelor-ish’ (Fiona McCarthy, The Simple Life: C. R. Ashbee in the Cotswolds. London: Lund Humphries, 1981. p.128) even when he was married.' |
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| Accession number | E.2162-1930 |
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| Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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