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Alfred Crowquill
Cover Design for The Two Admirals
1850s?
Pen and ink and watercolor over graphite, on paper.
6 3/4 x 5 11/16 inches (172 x 145 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.2165
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Original watercolor of a design for a "yellow-back" cover for an edition of the James Fenimore Cooper novel The Two Admirals; published by the firm of Richard Bentley, probably sometime in the 1850's.
Lettered within design: The Two Admirals by Cooper - London Bentley.
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Prelimary sketch in pen on verso of a design for the cover of Maria J. McIntosh's The lofty and the lowly (ultimately published under the full title, Alice Montrose, or, The lofty and the lowly : good in all, and none all good) for George Routledge & Co.
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Associated names:
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. Two admirals.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
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