Henri-Emile Lefort
Edgar Allan Poe
1893
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Henri-Emile Lefort
Edgar Allan Poe
1893
Physical Qualities
Etching and roulette with hand coloring, Plate: 350 x 238 mm. (13 3/4 x 9 3/8 in.)
Sheet: 474 x 308 mm. (18 11/16 x 12 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Leslie and Naomi Hendler Legum, Baltimore
Object Number
1991.185
A young and well-dressed Poe is surrounded by eleven fluttering ravens, emblems of his best-known poem. A single bug, heightened with gold coloring, crawls above his head. It is the key to a treasure in Poe’s short story, “The Gold Bug.”
Haunting Visions of Poe: Illustrations by Manet, Matisse & Gauguin
Edgar Allan Poe: A Baltimore Icon
Picturing Poe: Illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe's Stories and Poems
Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Newsletter of the Print and Drawing Society of the Baltimore Museum of Art,' Volume XXI, No. 2, Fall 2003, p.11.
Signed: 1
Inscribed: lower center in brown crayon: "henri Lefort"; upper left in plate: "Edgar Allan POE"; lower right in plate: "henri Lefort / 1894"
Markings: CM: M.B.
