Alfred Crowquill
Cover Design for "Colomba"
1850s?
6 7/8 x 5 1/8 inches (174 x 129 mm)
Pen and ink and watercolor over graphite, on paper.
1986.2218
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Lettered within design: Colomba by Merimée [with a second letter "r" indicated for inclusion in the author's name].
Original watercolor of a design for a "yellow-back" cover for an Prosper Mérimée's Colomba; published by the firm of Richard Bentley, probably sometime during the 1850's.
Original watercolor of a design for a "yellow-back" cover for an Prosper Mérimée's Colomba; published by the firm of Richard Bentley, probably sometime during the 1850's.
Inscriptions/Markings
In ink on verso: London Bentley [center] Merrimée [at foot] One Shilling.
Associated names
Mérimée, Prosper, 1803-1870. Colomba. English.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
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