Illustration for Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven"

Thomas Nast, American (born Germany), 1840 - 1902

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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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