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Fourth illustration by Édouard Manet for a French translation by Stéphane Mallarmé of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven". Other sources include: The Bridgeman Art Library and the National Gallery of Australia both show it in its expected orientation, the source of this file shows it as upside down.

  • Manet's Silence and the Poetics of Bouquets, by James Henry Rubin, says "In the fourth plate, shadow has itself taken on life, becoming the most prominent form. At its bottom it resembles that cast by the bird perched upon the bust, but then in much freer strokes it becomes a dense vapour rising and trailing into oblivion." At this period, plates were usually printed separately from the text, and inserted afterwards, so it's not impossible that a single copy might have a plate misplaced or upside-down, and as no reliable source comments on any unusual orientation, it seems likely, barring actual evidence to the contrary, that the upside-down orientation was a printing error confined to the primary source of this file and, perhaps, this copy (No. 29) of limited run.
The original restoration was tightly-cropped. As impressionism tends to make use of empty spaces, this version has cloned in some more paper at the top. This is not really ideal, but redoing a significant part of the restoration would be needed to do it more properly.
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Source Library of Congress[1][2]
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Édouard Manet  (1832–1883)  wikidata:Q40599 s:en:Author:Édouard Manet q:en:Édouard Manet
 
Édouard Manet
Description French painter, illustrator, lithographer, architectural draftsperson, drawer and visual artist
Date of birth/death 23 January 1832 Edit this at Wikidata 30 April 1883 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death former 10th arrondissement of Paris Edit this at Wikidata Paris Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1859 Edit this at Wikidata–1882 Edit this at Wikidata
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current12:50, 20 March 2010Thumbnail for version as of 12:50, 20 March 20103,255 × 3,845 (7.5 MB)Adam CuerdenThis was overly cropped. Clone some new paper to allow a better crop
12:26, 20 March 2010Thumbnail for version as of 12:26, 20 March 20103,255 × 3,505 (7.22 MB)Adam Cuerden{{Information |Description= |Source= |Date= |Author= |Permission= |other_versions= }}

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