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Cover Design for "The Pilot"

Alfred Crowquill

Cover Design for "The Pilot"

6 3/4 x 4 1/4 inches (172 x 109 mm)
Pen and ink and watercolor over graphite, on paper.
1986.2214

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Lettered within design: The Pilot [below] Cooper [at foot] London Bentley.
Original watercolor of a design for a "yellow-back" cover for an edition of the James Fenimore Cooper novel The Pilot; published by the firm of Richard Bentley, probably sometime during the 1850's.
Inscriptions/Markings
In ink on verso: Reverse writing.
Associated names
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. Pilot.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department