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Alfred Crowquill
Cover Design for The Deerslayer
1850s?
Pen and ink and watercolor over graphite, on paper.
6 3/4 x 5 5/8 inches (172 x 143 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.2164
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Notes:
Original watercolor of a design for a "yellow-back" cover for an edition of the James Fenimore Cooper novel The Deerslayer; published by the firm of George Routledge & Co., probably sometime in the 1850's.
Lettered within design: The Deerslayer by Cooper - G. Routledge & Co. 1/6.
Associated names:
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. Water witch.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
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