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Flying Raven, ex libris for Le Corbeau: The Raven

Edouard Manet (French, 1832–1883)
1875

Medium/Technique Brush and ink transfer lithograph on transparentized paper
Dimensions Sheet: 26 x 34 cm (10 1/4 x 13 3/8 in.) irregular
Credit Line Gift of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number32.466.1
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Harris 83f; Moreau-Nélaton 90
DescriptionOne of six illustrations for the poster, slipcase, and cover (83a), text (83b-e), and ex-libris (83f) of Stéphane Mallarmé's translation of Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven.
ProvenancePossibly Sarah Whitman; W. G. Russell Allen; his gift to MFA, 4 February 1932.