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Cover Design for "Count of Monte Cristo"

Alfred Crowquill

Cover Design for "Count of Monte Cristo"

1850s?
7 5/16 x 6 1/4 inches (186 x 158 mm)
Pen and ink and watercolor over graphite, on paper.
1986.2188

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Lettered within design: Monte Christo by Dumas [design signed] Alfred Crowquill.
Original watercolor of a design for a "yellow-back" cover for an edition of the Alexandre Dumas novel Count of Monte Cristo; published by the firm of Thomas Hodgson, probably sometime during the 1850's.
Inscriptions/Markings
In pencil on verso: Parlour Novelist not in P.L.; in pen: Hodgson; in pen on recto, above design: To be done first [at foot below design] The ornament to be lower.
Associated names
Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870. Comte de Monte-Cristo. English.
Hodgson, Thomas.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department