Joseph SWAIN (wood-engraver), Frederick SANDYS (draughtsman)
King Warwolf
(1862)
illustration p. 266 for The Death of King Warwolf: A Norse Legend by George Walter Thornbury in Once a Week, vol. 7 (June–December), published by Bradbury & Evans, London, 30 August 1862

Medium
wood-engraving

Measurements
14.2 × 11.5 cm (image) 14.4 × 11.8 cm (sheet)

Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Percival Serle, 1927

Gallery location
Not on display

Artwork Details

Place/s of Execution
London, England

Catalogue/s Raisonné
Reid p. 59

Inscription
printed in ink (in image) l.l.: AFS (monogram)
printed in ink (in image) l.r.: SWAIN Sc.

Accession Number
1280.8-3

Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest

Subjects (general)
Ceremonial and Funerary Human Figures Literary and Text

Subjects (specific)
burning alive characters (people by activity) deaths fires (events) illustrations (layout features) kings (people) literary characters Medievalism

Movements
Pre-Raphaelite Victorian