[Tailpiece to Hymn to adversity] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Tailpiece to Hymn to adversity] [graphic].
Creator: Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810, printmaker
Contributor: Bentley, R. 1708-1782, artist.
Published / Created: [1753]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: R. Dodsley
Description: Title devised by curator.
Printmaker identified by Horace Walpole in his copy of Gray's Odes in The Lewis Walpole Library.
Publication information from book in which this plate was published.
Plate from: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. London : Printed for R. Dodsley, 1753.
Mounted on page 86 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.
1 print : etching and engraving on laid paper ; sheet 14.3 x 17 cm.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Provenance: Sabin; August 1927. Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 14.3 x 17.2 cm
Language: English

Genre: Illustrations
Book illustrations
Engravings England London 1753
Etchings England London 1753
Material: etching and engraving ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771.
Subjects: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 > Illustrations
England > London > 1753
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

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