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Cover Design for "Homeward Bound"

Alfred Crowquill

Cover Design for "Homeward Bound"

1850s?
6 3/4 x 4 7/8 inches (172 x 123 mm)
Pen and ink and watercolor over graphite, on paper.
1986.2212

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Lettered within design: Homeward Bound - Cooper [below] London Bentley.
Original watercolor of a design for a "yellow-back" cover for an edition of the James Fenimore Cooper novel Homeward Bound; published by the firm of Richard Bentley, probably sometime during the 1850's.
Associated names
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. Homeward bound.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department