Alfred Crowquill
Cover Design for "Heidenmauer"
1850s?
7 1/16 x 5 5/8 inches (179 x 143 mm)
Pen and ink and watercolor over graphite, on paper.
1986.2168
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 Heidenmauer (The heathens' wall); published by the firm of Richard Bentley, probably sometime during the 1850's.
Lettered within design: Heidenmauer - Cooper [at head] Eighteen Pence [at foot] London Bentley.
Lettered within design: Heidenmauer - Cooper [at head] Eighteen Pence [at foot] London Bentley.
Associated names
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. Heidenmauer.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
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Century Drawings
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