Text: Mary E. Phillips, “Illustration,” Edgar Allan Poe: The Man (1926), illustration, vol. I, p. 291


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Illustration

EARLY PORTRAIT OF POE

Described on page 20 of S. V. Henkel's Philadelphia Catalogue, Item “15,” under oval by an unknown artist (R. M. Sully?), painted on 8 x 10 copper plate


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Notes:

Michael Deas does not consider this to be an authentic Poe portrait. This portrait is one of several suprious images of Poe reproduced by Miss Phillips.


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