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Edgar Allan Poe

Maker

(engraver)
1852-1931

Title

Edgar Allan Poe

Date of Production

1880

Medium

Wood engraving

Dimensions

Height: 32.7 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

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