Alfred Crowquill
Cover Design for "Poems by Sir Walter Scott"
1850s?
6 15/16 x 5 1/4 inches (177 x 136 mm)
Pen and ink and watercolor over graphite, on paper.
1986.2172
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Original watercolor of a design for a "yellow-back" cover for an edition of the collected poems of Sir Walter Scott; probably published sometime in the 1850's.
Lettered within design: Poems by Sir Walter Scott.
Lettered within design: Poems by Sir Walter Scott.
Associated names
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-1832. Poems.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
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