The Murders in the Rue Morgue

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Artist

Name:: Vierge, Daniel
Dates:: 1851-1904
Country:: Spain

Illustration

Subject:: Narratives
Technique:: Etching
Engraver:: Abot, Eugène Michel Joseph
Format:: Portrait (taller)
Source:: Robarts Library, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:: Histoires extraordinaires
Author:: Poe, Edgar Allan
Publisher:: Paris: Albert Quantin, 1884
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Description:

A frenzied ape pulls a woman’s head up by the hair and with its other hand cuts through her neck with a razor as another women lies on the floor and a witness watches the scene through a window.

The caption reads in the French version: Assassinat dans la rue Morgue.

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