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Cover Design for "The Bravo"

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Alfred Crowquill

Cover Design for "The Bravo"

1850s?
6 3/4 x 4 3/8 inches (172 x 110 mm)
Pen and ink and watercolor over graphite, on paper.
1986.2202

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Lettered within design: The Bravo Cooper.
Original watercolor of a design for a "yellow-back" cover for an edition of James Fenimore Cooper's The bravo, a Venetian story; published by the firm of Richard Bentley, probably sometime during the 1850's.
Inscriptions/Markings
In ink on verso: Bentley 1/6.
Associated names
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. Bravo.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department