BIB_ID
459456
Accession number
MA 644.26
Description
1 print : line and stipple engraving ; image: 176 x 133 mm ; sheet: 185 x 141 mm
Notes
Signature of Poe engraved in facsimile below image.
First state, as issued in Graham's magazine in 1845, with the portrait of Poe within an irregular octagonal border.
Engraving by the Philadelphia engraving firm of Welch & Walter after a drawing by A.C. Smith; created in 1844 and originally published in Graham's Magazine, February 1845, and accompanying an article about Poe by James Russell Lowell.
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
Library's copy trimmed with loss of caption text below image. NNPM
High reserve.
First state, as issued in Graham's magazine in 1845, with the portrait of Poe within an irregular octagonal border.
Engraving by the Philadelphia engraving firm of Welch & Walter after a drawing by A.C. Smith; created in 1844 and originally published in Graham's Magazine, February 1845, and accompanying an article about Poe by James Russell Lowell.
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
Library's copy trimmed with loss of caption text below image. NNPM
High reserve.
Summary
Engraved portrait of Edgar Allan Poe, seated half length, facing slightly right.
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