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Alfred Crowquill
Cover Design for Notes on Noses
1850s?
Pen and ink and watercolor over graphite, on paper.
6 3/4 x 4 11/16 inches (172 x 120 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.2224
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Lettered within design: [at head] One Shilling [center] Notes on Noses [at foot] London Bentley].
Original watercolor of a design for a "yellow-back" cover for an edition of Eden Warwick's Notes on noses; published by the firm of Richard Bentley sometime during the 1850's.
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Associated names:
Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Warwick, Eden, d. 1873. Notes on noses.
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