Alfred Crowquill
Cover Design for "Wyandotte"
6 3/4 x 5 7/16 inches (172 x 139 mm)
Pen and ink and watercolor over graphite, on paper.
1986.2179
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 Wyandotte; published by the firm of Richard Bentley, probably sometime during the 1850's.
Lettered within design: Wyandotte by Cooper.
Inscriptions/Markings
On verso in pencil: London Bentley.
Associated names
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. Wyandotte.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
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