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Cover Design for "The Hero of Our Days"

Alfred Crowquill

Cover Design for "The Hero of Our Days"

6 11/16 x 5 1/4 inches (169 x 132 mm)
Pen and ink and watercolor over graphite, on paper.
1986.2167

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Original watercolor of a design for a "yellow-back" cover for an edition of the Michael Lermantov novel The hero of our days; published by Thomas Hodgson, ca. 1854, as v. 112 of his "Parlour library" series.
Lettered within design: The Hero of Our Days by Michael Lermantoff.
Inscriptions/Markings
In pen on verso: Hodgson - Hodgson name not to be put [in pencil] Parlour 112.
Associated names
Lermontov, Mikhail I︠U︡rʹevich, 1814-1841. Geroĭ nashego vremeni. English.
Hodgson, Thomas.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department