Monograms for the publishers Chatto and Windus

Gleeson White

Late 1890s.

Pen and ink, pencil on paper.

This is a sheet of Gleeson White’s exploratory drawings, showing his ideas for a device for Chatto & Windus. These include a sailing ship (top right), a thistle, and letters wrapped in flowing stems.

Reproduced from the Gleeson White Archive, Houghton Library, Harvard University. [You may use this image without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose as long as you (1) credit the Victorian Web, and (2) link your document to this URL in a web document or cite the Victorian Web in a print one.]