Advanced Search
Under the Lamp ("Once upon a midnight dreary"), illustration for Le Corbeau: The Raven
Edouard Manet (French, 1832–1883)
1875
Medium/Technique
Brush and ink transfer lithograph on chine
Dimensions
Image: 27.5 x 37 cm (10 13/16 x 14 9/16 in.); Sheet: 37 x 55 cm (14 9/16 x 21 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number32.466.2
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Harris 83b; Guérin 86a; Moreau-Nélaton 091
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. (Portfolio cover kept with French books.)
ProvenancePossibly Sarah Whitman; W. G. Russell Allen; his gift to MFA, 4 February 1932.