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Cover Design for "The Deerslayer"

Alfred Crowquill

Cover Design for "The Deerslayer"

6 3/4 x 4 3/16 inches (172 x 107 mm)
Pen and ink and watercolor over graphite, on paper.
1986.2205

Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.

Notes
Center portion of original design where the title is written has been excised and another slip of paper affixed in its place.
Lettered within design: The Deer Slayer - Cooper [below] London Bentley.
Original watercolor of a design for a "yellow-back" cover for an edition of the James Fenimore Cooper novel The Deerslayer; published by the firm of Richard Bentley, probably sometime during the 1850's.
Associated names
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. Deerslayer.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department