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Alfred Crowquill
Cover Design for The Three Musketeers
1850s?
Pen and ink and watercolor over graphite, on paper.
6 3/4 x 5 3/8 inches (172 x 137 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.2193
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Lettered within design: The Three Musketeers by Dumas [at foot] G. Routledge & Co.
Original watercolor of a design for a "yellow-back" cover for an edition of the Alexandre Dumas novel The Three Musketeers; published by the firm of Routledge & Co., probably sometime during the 1850's.
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In pen on verso: 2/ or 50 cents London (G Routledge & Co.) & New York.
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Associated names:
Dumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870. Three musketeers.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
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