Under the Lamp ("Once upon a midnight dreary..."), from The Raven (Le Corbeau)

Prints and Drawings

1875

Édouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)
written by Edgar Allan Poe (American, 1809-1849)
translated and produced by Stéphane Mallarmé (French, 1842-1898)
printed by Lefman et Cie. (French, 19th century)
published by Richard Lesclide (French, 1825-1892)

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Artist: Édouard Manet
Title: Under the Lamp ("Once upon a midnight dreary..."), from The Raven (Le Corbeau)
Origin: France
Date: 1875
Medium: Transfer lithograph in black on gray China paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, in plate, lower left, below image: "E. M."
Dimensions: 273 × 380 mm (image); 395 × 556 mm (sheet)
Credit Line: Prints and Drawings Purchase Fund
Reference Number: 1945.52.3

The Art Institute of Chicago, “Edouard Manet 1832-1883,” (as “‘And suddenly there came a tapping …’”) January 13-February 19, 1967, p. 148, cat. 133c (not ill.); also traveled to The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, November 3-December 11, 1966.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Blake Palmer Gallery, “Manet as Printmaker: Works from the Permanent Collection,” April 20-September 12, 1985, no cat.

Harris 83b only state

Guérin 86a II/II

Moreau-Nélaton 91 only state

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