Object Details
- 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. This drawing was likely created for a spot illustration for the short story, The Landor’s Cottage. At center, a rectangular, abstract composition divided by an X that cuts the rectangle into four triangular areas. Each triangular area is shaded individually. In the bottom triangle, a white sphere and a long curved line extending out of the circle upwards and to the left.
- 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
- Pen and black ink on paper
- Dimensions
- 33 × 24 cm (13 × 9 7/16 in.)
- Type
- graphic design
- Object Name
- Drawing
- Type
- Drawing
