Alfred Crowquill
Cover Design for "The Pioneers"
6 3/4 x 4 15/16 inches (172 x 126 mm)
Pen and ink and watercolor over graphite, on paper.
1986.2216
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Lettered within design: The Pioneers by Cooper [at foot] G. Routledge & Co.; [in pencil at head] One Shilling & Six Pence.
Original watercolor of a design for a "yellow-back" cover for an edition of the James Fenimore Cooper novel The Pioneers, or, The sources of the Susquehanna; published by the firm of George Routledge, probably sometime during the 1850's.
Original watercolor of a design for a "yellow-back" cover for an edition of the James Fenimore Cooper novel The Pioneers, or, The sources of the Susquehanna; published by the firm of George Routledge, probably sometime during the 1850's.
Inscriptions/Markings
In ink on verso: 1/6.
Associated names
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851. Pioneers.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
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