Sketch for Story by James Fenimore Cooper
Felix Octavius Carr Darley, American, 1822 - 1888
not dated
Graphite on wove paper
Sheet: 4 7/16 × 5 7/8 in. (11.2 × 15 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Collection of Dartmouth College Library
D.999.28.17
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, on reverse: Darley drawing for Cooper novel
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. 231.
Provenance
James F. Beard, Jr.; given to Dartmouth College Library, 1951.
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