The bard [art original].

Description

Title: The bard [art original].
Creator: Loutherbourg, Philippe-Jacques de, 1740-1812, artist
Published / Created: [approximately 1780?]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Drawing of a subject from Thomas Gray's poem 'The Bard': The bard shown standing on the side of a cliff at right playing harp, his cloak, beard and hair blown by the wind, a group of Edward I's soldiers pointing towards him from the opposite side of the river below
Description: Title devised by cataloger.
Unsigned.
The oil painting is in the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff. It was later engraved by Hall (figures) and Middiman (landscape), published in 1784 as the frontispiece to Edward Jones's Musical and poetical relicks of the Welsh Bards (London : Richard Rees, 1825).
Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, British painter and Royal Academician, 1740-1812.
Provenance: Purchased at the Strawberry Hill sale, viii. 5 by William Knight with a collection of Bentley drawings, £4.2.0. Sold by Spencer to W.S. Lewis, May 1926.
Extent: 1 drawing : 27.6 x 22 cm
Language: English

Access: Public
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Citation: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, From Eaton. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.