Edgar Allan Poe
Maker
(engraver)
1852-1931
1852-1931
Title
Edgar Allan Poe
Date of Production
1880
Medium
Wood engraving
Dimensions
Height: 32.7 cm
Width: 24 cm
Width: 24 cm
Accession Number
G.1990.WL.7134
Mode of Acquisition
Witt Library, transfer, 1990
Credit
Courtauld Gallery, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
Notes
The wood engraving is made after a daguerreotype. It was commissioned to illustrate E. C. Stedman's essay 'Edgar Allan Poe' in Scribner's Monthly, vol. 20, no. 1 (May 1880), pp. 107-123.
Provenance
Information not yet known or updated
Inscriptions
Inscription: Recto: upper right, printed above image: PLATE XVIII.
Inscription: Recto: lower left, pencil: EDGAR ALLAN POE. DAGUERREOTYPE.
Inscription: Recto: lower left, written in pencil above and to the right of "DAGUERREOTYPE." and above "Engraving by T. COLE": From / ? Wood
Inscription: Recto: lower centre, written in black ink over pencil: Engraving by T. COLE
Stamp: Recto: lower right, stamped in black: Witt / Library 1981
Stamp: Recto: lower right, stamped in black: M2
Stamp: Recto: lower right, stamped in black: ILLUSTRATION : EX. CORNISH COLL. / ACQUIRED BY HAMPSTEAD PUBLIC / LIBRARY, 1928; PRESENTED TO WITT / LIBRARY, 1966
Inscription: Recto: lower left, pencil: EDGAR ALLAN POE. DAGUERREOTYPE.
Inscription: Recto: lower left, written in pencil above and to the right of "DAGUERREOTYPE." and above "Engraving by T. COLE": From / ? Wood
Inscription: Recto: lower centre, written in black ink over pencil: Engraving by T. COLE
Stamp: Recto: lower right, stamped in black: Witt / Library 1981
Stamp: Recto: lower right, stamped in black: M2
Stamp: Recto: lower right, stamped in black: ILLUSTRATION : EX. CORNISH COLL. / ACQUIRED BY HAMPSTEAD PUBLIC / LIBRARY, 1928; PRESENTED TO WITT / LIBRARY, 1966
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