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Cover Design for "Afloat and Ashore"

Alfred Crowquill

Cover Design for "Afloat and Ashore"

1850s?
6 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches (172 x 146 mm)
Pen and ink and watercolor over graphite, on paper.
1986.2183

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 Afloat and Ashore, or, The Adventures of Miles Wallingford; published by the firm of Richard Bentley, probably sometime during the 1850's.
Lettered within design: Afloat and Ashore - Cooper - London Bentley.
Associated names
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. Afloat and Ashore.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department