Alfred Crowquill
Cover Design for "The Pathfinder"
1850s?
6 3/4 x 4 15/16 inches (170 x 126 mm)
Pen and ink and watercolor over graphite, on paper.
1986.2151
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Original watercolor of a design for a "yellow-back" cover for an edition of the James Fenimore Cooper novel The pathfinder, or, The inland sea; published by the firm of Richard Bentley sometime during the 1850's.
Lettered within design: The Pathfinder Cooper [at foot] London Bentley.
Lettered within design: The Pathfinder Cooper [at foot] London Bentley.
Associated names
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. Pathfinder.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
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