Illustration for Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven"
Thomas Nast, American (born Germany), 1840 - 1902
about July 1862
Brush and ink and white opaque watercolor over graphite on brown wove paper with machine-printed text on wove paper mounted below image
Sheet: 11 7/8 × 10 3/16 in. (30.2 × 25.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
D.944.31.3
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Not signed.
Exhibition History
Night Visions: Nocturnes in American Art, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, June 25-October 18, 2015.
Publication History
Barbara J. MacAdam, Marks of Distinction, Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Manchester, Vermont: Hudson Hills Press, 2005, ill. p. 242.
Provenance
Cora McDevitt Wilson (1880-1975), The Book & Print Shop, Hanover, New Hampshire; sold to present collection, 1944.
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