[Tailpiece to Ode (on the spring)] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Tailpiece to Ode (on the spring)] [graphic].
Creator: Miller, John, 1715-1790?, printmaker
Contributor: Bentley, R. 1708-1782, artist.
Published / Created: [approximately 1753]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: R. Dodsley
Description: Title devised by curator.
Printmaker from signature on lettered state: J.S. Müller sc.
Variant state, probably a proof before letters, of a plate from: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. London : Printed for R. Dodsley, 1753.
Publication information from book in which the lettered state of this plate was published.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Mounted on page 80 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Provenance: Sabin; August 1927. Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 15 x 20 cm
Edition: [State without printmaker's signature].
Language: English

Genre: Illustrations
Book illustrations
Engravings England London 1753
Etchings England London 1753
Proofs before letters
Material: etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771.
Subjects: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 > Illustrations
England > London > 1753
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

Access: Public
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