Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Study for an illustration for a 1946 edition of The Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe, published by Knopf in New York. At lower center, two figures (the left-most, white; the right-most, black) depicted standing in front of a stone wall on an angled ground. At right, in the foreground, a single twisted column.
- 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
- Brush and gouache on paper
- Dimensions
- 30.3 × 24 cm (11 15/16 × 9 7/16 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
