Alfred Crowquill

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Alfred Crowquill
Cover Design for Pictures of Life at Home and Abroad
1850s?
Pen and ink and watercolor over graphite, on paper.
6 13/16 x 4 15/16 inches (172 x 125 mm)
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
1986.2194
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Lettered within design: Pictures of Life at Home and Abroad [at head] One Shilling [at foot] Bentley London.
Original watercolor of a design for a "yellow-back" cover for an edition of Albert Smith's Pictures of Life at Home and Abroad; published by the firm of Richard Bentley, probably sometime during the 1850's.

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In pencil on verso: Parlour 33.

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From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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Ray, Gordon Norton, 1915-1986, former owner.
Smith, Albert, 1816-1860. Pictures of Life at Home and Abroad.

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