The Shadow of a Crime by Hall Caine
Date1895
Artist
Maurice Brazil Prendergast
(American painter, printmaker, and designer, 1859–1924)
Illustration CitationAdvertising poster for The Shadow of a Crime, by Hall Caine (Boston: Joseph Knight Company, 1895).
MediumSingle-color lithograph
Dimensionscomposition: 15 1/4 × 8 7/8 in. (38.7 × 22.5 cm)
sheet: 17 7/8 × 12 5/16 in. (45.4 × 31.3 cm)
sheet: 17 7/8 × 12 5/16 in. (45.4 × 31.3 cm)
Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1977
Object number1977-286
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextFirst published by Chatto and Windus in 1885, The Shadow of a Crime was the first novel by the British writer Hall Caine, who served as secretary to the Pre-Raphaelite painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti before becoming a popular author of romantic novels.
