Physical Qualities
Brush and ink transfer lithograph, Sheet: 348 x 542 mm. (13 11/16 x 21 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
The George A. Lucas Collection, purchased with funds from the State of Maryland, Laurence and Stella Bendann Fund, and contributions from individuals, foundations, and corporations throughout the Baltimore community
Object Number
1996.48.18053
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
Hoping for some relief from mourning his love Lenore, the narrator
sits late at night at his dimly lit desk, seeking distraction in his books.
Manet asserts his own presence here by including his signature top
hat and cane on the chair beside the desk.
(Edgar Allan Poe, 2009)
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1996; The Maryland Institute College of Art,
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
through Henry Walters, Baltimore, by bequest 1909; from George A. Lucas, Paris
Peter Wick, Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, "The Arts of the French Book 1900 - 1965," Dec. 1966 - Jan. 1967; circulated to Lillian Bradshaw, Dallas Public Library, Dallas, TX, Mar. 28 - May 6, 1967; circulated to Yale University Library, New Haven, CT, c. June 1967.
The Maryland Institute, Baltimore, Nov. 3 - 24, 1968.
Doreen Bolger, BMA, "Edgar Allan Poe: A Baltimore Icon," 4 October 2009 - 17 January 2010.
The Maryland Institute, Baltimore, Nov. 3 - 24, 1968.
Doreen Bolger, BMA, "Edgar Allan Poe: A Baltimore Icon," 4 October 2009 - 17 January 2010.
Inscribed: Signed in matrix: lower left "E. M."
Markings: None
