Drawing, Study for The Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe | Images | Objects | Collection of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Stylized bust portrait of Edgar Allan Poe against a gray ground. The lower portion of his face is heavily shaded in dark gray contrasting with the stark white of his broad forehead and rectangular bridge of his nose. Detail-work around the eyes is vague with circle brushstrokes of dark gray mixed with some white indicating depth. Below his nose a black triangular mustache rests above his lower lip with deep smile lines. His hair is in a rounded inverted u-shape hugging the sides of the face. He wears a high white collar shirt with gray neck and what appears to be a green jacket with black collar.

Drawing, Study for The Complete Poems and Stories of Edgar Allan Poe