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.”
Brandywine River Museum, "Picturing Poe: Illustrations for Edgar Allan Poe's Stories and Poems," September 8 2012 - November 15 2012.
Doreen Bolger, BMA, "Edgar Allan Poe: A Baltimore Icon," 4 October 2009 - 17 January 2010.
Doreen Bolger, BMA, "Haunting Visions of Poe; Illustrations by Manet, Matisse & Gauguin," Sept. 17, 2003-Jan. 11, 2004.
Doreen Bolger, BMA, "Edgar Allan Poe: A Baltimore Icon," 4 October 2009 - 17 January 2010.
Doreen Bolger, BMA, "Haunting Visions of Poe; Illustrations by Manet, Matisse & Gauguin," Sept. 17, 2003-Jan. 11, 2004.
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.
