Alfred Crowquill

Alfred Crowquill
Cover Design for The Bravo
1850s?
Pen and ink and watercolor over graphite, on paper.
6 3/4 x 4 3/8 inches (172 x 110 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.2202
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Lettered within design: The Bravo Cooper.
Original watercolor of a design for a "yellow-back" cover for an edition of James Fenimore Cooper's The bravo, a Venetian story; published by the firm of Richard Bentley, probably sometime during the 1850's.

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In ink on verso: Bentley 1/6.

Provenance: 
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Associated names: 

Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. Bravo.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.

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