Illustration for Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven"
Thomas Nast, American (born Germany), 1840 - 1902
July 30, 1862
Brush and ink and white opaque watercolor over graphite on wove paper
Sheet: 8 1/2 × 8 1/2 in. (21.6 × 21.6 cm)
Mount: 12 1/4 × 9 15/16 in. (31.1 × 25.2 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
D.944.31.2
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
19th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed and dated, lower left: Th. Nast / July 30, 1862
Course History
SART 15, Drawing I, Jack Wilson, Katherine Hart, Spring 2012
SART 20, SART 71, Drawing II, III, Summer 2013
ENGL 29, American Fiction to 1900, Colleen Boggs, Spring 2014
SART 15, Drawing I, Jack Wilson, Summer 2014
Exhibition History
Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 29-May 29, 2005; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan, June 24-September 11, 2005; National Academy Museum, New York City, New York, October 20-December 31, 2005.
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, pp. 34, 90, 92-93, 255, ill. p. 91, no. 19.
Joachim Homann, Night Vision: Nocturnes in American Art, 1860-1960, Munich, London, New York: Delmonico Books / Prestel, 2016, 176 pp., ill. p. 52.
Provenance
Cora McDevitt Wilson (1880-1975), The Book & Print Shop, Hanover, New Hampshire; sold to present collection, 1944.
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