Alfred Crowquill
Cover Design for "A Shilling Cookery for the People"
1855?
6 5/8 x 5 1/16 inches (169 x 128 mm)
Pen and ink and watercolor over graphite, on paper.
1986.2217
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Lettered within design: Soyer's Shilling Cookery for the Million [last word struck out in pen] G. Routledge & Co. London & New York [at foot] One Shilling or Twenty Five Cents.
Original watercolor of a design for a "yellow-back" cover for an edition of Alexis Soyer's A shilling cookery for the people; published by the firm of George Routledge & Co., 1855.
Original watercolor of a design for a "yellow-back" cover for an edition of Alexis Soyer's A shilling cookery for the people; published by the firm of George Routledge & Co., 1855.
Inscriptions/Markings
In ink on verso: Soyer's Shilling Cookery for the People.
Associated names
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Soyer, Alexis, 1809-1858. Shilling cookery for the people.
Soyer, Alexis, 1809-1858. Shilling cookery for the people.
Classification
Century Drawings
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