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Cover Design for "Fern Leaves From Fanny's Portfolio"

Alfred Crowquill

Cover Design for "Fern Leaves From Fanny's Portfolio"

1850s?
7 x 4 1/2 inches (178 x 114 mm)
Pen and ink and watercolor over graphite, on paper.
1986.2201

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Lettered within design: Fern Leaves From Fanny's Portfolio Wm. S. Orr Paternoster Row [at left, in pencil] First and Second Series [at right, in pencil] Two Shillings.
Original watercolor of a design for a "yellow-back" cover for an edition of Fanny Fern's Fern leaves from Fanny's portfolio; published by the firm of Wm.S. Orr, probably sometime during the 1850's.
Summary

Cover shows fern leaves within a rustic border.

Associated names
Fern, Fanny, 1811-1872. Fern leaves from Fanny's portfolio.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department