Alfred Crowquill

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Alfred Crowquill
Three drawings for Crowquill's "Tales Of Magic and Meaning"
1856?
Pen and black ink over graphite on paper.
Gift of DeCoursey Fales, 1956.
1956.28:58g-i
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Title devised by cataloger.
The third of three sheets in the Library's collection (nos. 1956.28:58a-c, 1956.28:58d-f, 1956.28:58g-i) with illustrations by Crowquill for his Tales Of Magic and Meaning; the drawings executed three to a sheet for a total of nine illustrations on three sheets lettered "a" through "i".
Series of three small vignette drawings on a single sheet, evidently unpublished but evidently intended to illustrate Alfred Crowquill's collection of children's stories entitled Tales Of Magic and Meaning (London : Grant and Griffith, 1856): (g) a bear standing upright and mopping his face with a handkerchief, (h) a child wrapped in the coils of a snake, (i) a fairy or little girl reclining within a sprig of heart-shaped leaves or flowers.

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Crowquill, Alfred. Tales of magic and meaning.
Fales, DeCoursey, 1888-1966, former owner.

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