Text: Mary E. Phillips, “Illustration,” Edgar Allan Poe: The Man (1926), illustration, vol. I, p. 53

Notes:

Barely discernable in this reproduction is the use of pencil to add faint details around the eyes, nose and mouth, as well as an edge and texture for the hair. Although Miss Phillips states that Mrs. Usher died “during the 1832 cholera epidemic,” A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 (Philip H. Highfill, Kalman A. Burnim, and Edward A. Langhans, Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1993, vol. 15, p. 91) states that both she and her husband died in 1814.