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Cover Design for "Comic Tales & Sketches"

Alfred Crowquill

Cover Design for "Comic Tales & Sketches"

1850s?
6 3/4 x 4 13/16 inches (172 x 121 mm)
Pen and ink and watercolor over graphite, on paper.
1986.2226

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Lettered within design: Comic Tales & Sketches by Albert Smith [at foot] One Shilling London R. Bentley [at foot spine design] 1s.
Original watercolor of a design for a "yellow-back" cover for an edition of Albert Smith's Comic tales & sketches; published by the firm of Richard Bentley, sometime during the 1850's.
Associated names
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Smith, Albert, 1816-1860. Comic tales & sketches.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department