Designer:

E. McKnight Kauffer, American, 1890–1954  Search this

Publisher:

Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York, USA  Search this

Author:

Edgar Allan Poe, American, 1809–1849  Search this

Medium:

Pen and black ink on paper

Dimensions:

33 × 24 cm (13 × 9 7/16 in.)

Type:

graphic design

Drawing

Object Name:

Drawing

Made in:

New York, New York, United States

New York, New York, USA

Date:

1946

Catalogue Status:

Research in Progress

Description:

Illustration for a 1946 edition of The Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe, published by Knopf in New York. Cataloguing card indicates that this illustration/study was created to accompany the short story, “Metzengerstein,” originally published in 1832, which appears in Volume I on page 93. At center, a hand with veined fingers and the palm facing forward, loosely holding a broken ink pen, with black ink dripping from the tip of the pen.

Credit Line:

Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer

Accession Number:

1963-39-484

Restrictions & Rights:

Usage conditions apply

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Data Source:

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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EDAN-URL:

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