BIB_ID
459451
Accession number
MA 644.24
Creator
Sartain, John, 1808-1897, engraver.
Description
1 print : mezzotint with line engraved border, on steel ; image: 105 x 88 mm; plate mark: 198 x 145 mm; sheet: 280 x 204 mm
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Title from item.
Mezzotint engraving by Sartain after an oil painting created circa 1845 by Samuel Stillman Osgood; issued as a frontispiece portrait in volume I of: The works of the late Edgar Allan Poe : with notices of his life and genius / by N.P. Willis, J.R. Lowell, and R.W. Griswold. New York : J.S. Redfield, 1850.
Part of a collection of letters and manuscripts related to Edgar Allan Poe. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record (MA 644) for more information. NNPM
High reserve.
Mezzotint engraving by Sartain after an oil painting created circa 1845 by Samuel Stillman Osgood; issued as a frontispiece portrait in volume I of: The works of the late Edgar Allan Poe : with notices of his life and genius / by N.P. Willis, J.R. Lowell, and R.W. Griswold. New York : J.S. Redfield, 1850.
Part of a collection of letters and manuscripts related to Edgar Allan Poe. Items in the collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record (MA 644) for more information. NNPM
High reserve.
Summary
Oval head-and-shoulders portrait of Edgar Allan Poe, facing forward and looking to the right, within a rectangular line engraved frame.
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