Alfred Crowquill
Cover Design for "Monsieur Violet"
1850s?
7 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches (185 x 140 mm)
Pen and ink and watercolor over graphite, on paper.
1986.2184
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Lettered within design: The Adventures of Mons. Violet by Capn Marryat [at foot] London Thos Hodgson.
Original watercolor of a design for a "yellow-back" cover for an edition of the Frederick Marryat novel Monsieur Violet; published by the firm of Thomas Hodgson, probably sometime during the 1850's, as v. 33 of their Parlour library series.
Original watercolor of a design for a "yellow-back" cover for an edition of the Frederick Marryat novel Monsieur Violet; published by the firm of Thomas Hodgson, probably sometime during the 1850's, as v. 33 of their Parlour library series.
Inscriptions/Markings
In pencil on verso: Parlour 33.
Associated names
Hodgson, Thomas.
Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848. Monsieur Violet.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848. Monsieur Violet.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
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