Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Printed proof of an illustration for a 1946 edition of The Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe, published by Knopf in New York. The illustration is likely for Poe’s short story, The Fall of the House of Usher, originally published in 1839. A red figure stands facing a large white curtain, which obscures a castle at the back of a stage. At left, an arched doorway with a tower depicted in silhouette. Above, the sky is a dark blue with wispy white clouds. The ground (or possibly, stage floor) is gray.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Designer
- E. McKnight Kauffer, American, 1890–1954
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf, New York, New York, USA
- Author
- Edgar Allan Poe, American, 1809–1849
- Date
- 1946
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. E. McKnight Kauffer
- Medium
- Offset lithograph on paper
- Dimensions
- 21.9 × 14.9 cm (8 5/8 × 5 7/8 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Type
