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Cover Design for "The Water Witch"

Alfred Crowquill

Cover Design for "The Water Witch"

6 3/4 x 5 5/8 inches (172 x 143 mm)
Pen and ink and watercolor over graphite, on paper.
1986.2163

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Original watercolor of a design for a "yellow-back" cover for the James Fenimore Cooper novel The Water witch; published by the firm of Richard Bentley, probably sometime in the 1850's.
Lettered within design: The Water Witch - Cooper London Bentley.
Associated names
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. Water witch.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department