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Cover Design for "A Brilliant Marriage"

Alfred Crowquill

Cover Design for "A Brilliant Marriage"

1850s?
6 3/4 x 4 11/16 inches (173 x 120 mm)
Pen and ink and watercolor over graphite, on paper.
1986.2210

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Lettered within design: The Brilliant Marriage [at head] One Shilling [at foot] London Bentley.
Original watercolor of a design for a "yellow-back" cover for an edition of the Emilie Flygare-Carlén novel A brilliant marriage; published by the firm Richard Bentley, probably sometime during the 1850's.
Associated names
Flygare-Carlén, Emilie, 1807-1892. Brilliant marriage. English.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department