The Wrecker
Alice Cordelia Morse|Robert Louis Stevenson|Lloyd Osborne|Charles Scribner's Sons
1892 · Light rust cloth covered boards with dark and light green and gold decoration · Drawings and Prints
A leading New York book-cover designer in the late nineteenth century, Morse studied at the Woman’s Art School of the Cooper Union, then under John La Farge before working for Louis C. Tiffany as a painter and designer of stained glass. In 1887 she began to concentrate on book-covers, fufilling eighty-three commissions for New York commercial publishers by 1905. Complementing the text, she chose from a range of imagery, here creating grotesque ornament including intertwined dolphins and plants. The cover is bound in light rust diagonal-rib reversed cloth, stamped in light and dark green.
- Artist
- Alice Cordelia Morse|Robert Louis Stevenson|Lloyd Osborne|Charles Scribner's Sons
- Date
- 1892
- Medium
- Light rust cloth covered boards with dark and light green and gold decoration
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Gift of Alice C. Morse, 1923, transferred from the Library
