BIB_ID
459453
Accession number
MA 644.23
Creator
Hollyer, Samuel, 1826-1919, engraver.
Description
1 print : steel engraving ; sheet: 280 x 180 mm
Notes
Title from item; with Poe's signature engraved in facsimile below image.
Engraved below the copy of Poe's signature: "From a daguerreotype from the Daly collection / now the property of Peter Gilsey Esq / copyright 1900 by George D. Smith, NY."
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.
Engraved below the copy of Poe's signature: "From a daguerreotype from the Daly collection / now the property of Peter Gilsey Esq / copyright 1900 by George D. Smith, NY."
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
Engraved portrait of Edgar Allan Poe, vignette, seated half length, facing forward, with one forearm resting on the back of his chair at left, and the other on a table at right.
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