
Edgar Allen Poe Museum
Richmond, VA – Central Virginia
Illustrations for “The Raven” by Artist James Carling, 1884
This set of illustrations is the masterpiece of the Liverpool born American artist
James Carling.
Carling's aim in creating these works was to create original and unusual
work by thoroughly sympathizing with Poe's own ideas and emotions. As a result, his work is unusual in American art of the 1880s, and have more in common with the work of the most advanced European Symbolists
like Odilon Redon than they do with Carling's fellow Americans like Winslow
Homer.