The Hope of Form is the Promise of Beauty / Humphry Clinker

Name/Title

The Hope of Form is the Promise of Beauty / Humphry Clinker

Entry/Object ID

2025.7.164

Description

The frame is an illustration, like a woodblock print, with a castle on a hill in the top left corner, a tree on the right with a knight on horseback on its base, and a river at the bottom in the foreground. A ray of light starts in the top left next to the castle and ends on the center right, behind the trees. Vegetation fills the rest of the space. The center has a a rectangular text box, with text in red at the top and bottom of it. The middle space is filled with more vegetation, with four stalks rising toward fruit pods (?). Printing information on the right side. Bottom and right edges are raw.

Collection

Clinker Press Collection

Publication Details

Author

Humphry Clinker

Illustrator

Andre Chaves

Publisher

Bertram Goodhue

Printer

The Clinker Press

Date Printed

1/2013

Notes

Original by Bertram Goodhue, redrawn by Andre Chaves, printed at The Clinker Press.

Dimensions

Height

32.6 cm

Width

25.3 cm