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Alfred Crowquill
Cover Design for The Rubber of Life
1850s?
Pen and ink and watercolor over graphite, on paper.
6 3/4 x 4 13/16 inches (172 x 123 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.2211
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Lettered within design: The Rubber of Life [at head] One Shilling [at foot] London Bentley.
Original watercolor of a design for a "yellow-back" cover for an edition of the Dalton Ingoldsby novel The Rubber of life; published by the firm of Richard Bentley, probably sometime during the 1850's.
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In ink on verso: Open this / Take out ornaments
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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Ingoldsby, Dalton, 1815-1886. Rubber of life.
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
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