Physical Qualities
Brush and ink transfer lithograph, Sheet: 421 x 315 mm. (42.1 x 31.5 cm.)
Image: 395 x 300 mm. (39.5 x 30 cm.)
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
1996.48.18052
Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore;
The narrator opens his window to reveal a Parisian cityscape,
the night sky lightened to emphasize the Raven’s black profile.
As the Raven makes his uninvited entrance, the man’s shock
and excitement is expressed subtly through the gesture of his
outspread fingers.
(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.
Eugene Leake, Maryland Institute College of Art, St. Timothy's School, Stevenson, MD, Oct. 23 - Nov. 9, 1972.
BMA, "The Prints of Edouard Manet: A Centenary Celebration," 27 September - 20 November, 1983.
Jay McKean Fisher, International Exhibitions Foundation, Washington, D.C., "The Prints of Edouard Manet," 1985-1986, cat. no. 66 p. 11, ill. p. 111; circulated to The Detroit Institute of Art; University Art Museum, Berkeley; The St. Louis Art Museum; Huntsville Museum of Art; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.
Doreen Bolger, BMA, "Edgar Allan Poe: A Baltimore Icon," 4 October 2009 - 17 January 2010.
The Maryland Institute, Baltimore, Nov. 3 - 24, 1968.
Eugene Leake, Maryland Institute College of Art, St. Timothy's School, Stevenson, MD, Oct. 23 - Nov. 9, 1972.
BMA, "The Prints of Edouard Manet: A Centenary Celebration," 27 September - 20 November, 1983.
Jay McKean Fisher, International Exhibitions Foundation, Washington, D.C., "The Prints of Edouard Manet," 1985-1986, cat. no. 66 p. 11, ill. p. 111; circulated to The Detroit Institute of Art; University Art Museum, Berkeley; The St. Louis Art Museum; Huntsville Museum of Art; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.
Doreen Bolger, BMA, "Edgar Allan Poe: A Baltimore Icon," 4 October 2009 - 17 January 2010.
Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Newsletter of the Print and Drawing Society of the Baltimore Museum of Art,' Volume XXI, No. 2, Fall 2003, p. 10, ill.
Inscribed: Signed in matrix: lower right "E. M."
Markings: Collector's stamp: verso "M.I. / LUCAS / COLLECTION" (Lugt 1695c)
