Lines in mosoleum at North Court, not after 1806

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Title: Lines in mosoleum at North Court, not after 1806
Alternative Title: Lines in mausoleum at Northcourt
Creator: Bull, Richard, 1725-1806
Abstract: Manuscript in Richard Bull's hand of the verses that were inscribed in the mausoleum to the memory of his daughter Catherine, who died in 1795. The mausoleum, now lost, was erected ca. 1800 by Bull in The Dell at Northcourt, in the Isle of Wight. The verses begin: "Oft in this once belovd retreat, A father and a sister meet ..."
Description: In English.
Title written in ink and pencil in a contemporary hand on verso.
Statement of responsibility written in pencil in a contemporary hand on verso.
Date supplied by cataloger based on the year of Richard Bull's death.
Pencil annotation in a later hand on verso: V[...?] extracts[?] Mrs. B.
Watermark: Joseph Coles 1805.
Formerly laid in at page 209 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806].
Housed in mylar sleeve matted to 49 x 37 cm.
Original case shelved separately.
Provenance: Merian drawings purchased by Richard Bull from the collection of Doctor Fothergill (1712-1780). Album purchased by W.S. Lewis at the Julia Swinburne and Lady Jane Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's, lot 426, 20 July 1954.
Extent: 1 20 x 24 cm item ;
Language: English

Genre: Poetry
Poems
Watermarks (Paper) Joseph Coles 1805
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Isle of Wight (England)
Subjects: Isle of Wight (England) > Poetry
Joseph Coles > 1805
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Richard Bull, Lines in Mosoleum at North Court. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.