Alfred Crowquill
Cover Design for "The History of Margaret Catchpole"
6 11/16 x 4 5/16 inches (169 x 110 mm)
Pen and ink and watercolor over graphite, on paper.
1986.2191
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Original watercolor of a design for a "yellow-back" cover for an edition of the Richard Cobbold novel The History of Margaret Catchpole; published by the firm of Thomas Hodgson, probably sometime during the 1850's, as v. 74 of their Parlour library series.
Inscriptions/Markings
In pencil on verso: Margaret Catchpole Parlour 74.
Associated names
Cobbold, Richard, 1797-1877. History of Margaret Catchpole.
Hodgson, Thomas.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Hodgson, Thomas.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
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Century Drawings
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