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Alfred Crowquill
Cover Design for The Last of the Mohicans
1850s?
Pen and ink and watercolor over graphite, on paper.
6 5/8 x 5 3/16 inches (168 x 131 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.2158
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Original watercolor of a design for a "yellow-back" cover for an edition of the James Fenimore Cooper novel The Last of the Mohicans; published by the firm of Richard Bentley sometime during the 1850's.
Lettered within design: The Last of the Mohicans - Bentley.
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Associated names:
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. Last of the Mohicans.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
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