Alfred Crowquill
Cover Design for The "Two Admirals"
6 3/4 x 4 1/8 inches (172 x 105 mm)
Pen and ink and watercolor over graphite, on paper.
1986.2203
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 The Two Admirals; published by the firm of Richard Bentley, probably sometime in the 1850's.
Lettered within design: The Two Admirals - Cooper - London Bentley.
Lettered within design: The Two Admirals - Cooper - London Bentley.
Associated names
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. Two admirals.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
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Century Drawings
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