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Cover Design for "John Drayton"

Alfred Crowquill

Cover Design for "John Drayton"

1850s?
6 3/4 x 4 15/16 inches (170 x 126 mm)
Pen and ink and watercolor over graphite, on paper.
1986.2150

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Original watercolor of a design for a "yellow-back" cover for the novel: John Drayton : being a history of the early life and development of a Liverpool engineer; variously attributed to Mrs. Margaret Oliphant or to her brother, William Wilson, and first published anonymously by the firm of Richard Bentley in 1851.
Lettered within design: John Drayton the early life of a Liverpool engineer [at foot] London Bentley.
Associated names
Wilson, William, minister at Etal. John Drayton.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department