A favrite [sic] has no friend [graphic]

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Title: A favrite [sic] has no friend [graphic]
Alternative Title: Favorite has no friend
Creator: Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810, printmaker
Contributor: Bentley, R. 1708-1782, artist.
Published / Created: [1753]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: R. Dodsley
Description: Title from text etched within banner at bottom of image.
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.
Frontispiece to: Ode on the death of a favourite cat.
Plate from: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. London : Printed for R. Dodsley, 1753.
Mounted on page 83 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 26.8 x 20.9 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 26.4 x 21 cm, on sheet 35 x 24 cm
Language: English

Genre: Illustrations
Book illustrations
Engravings England London 1753
Etchings England London 1753
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
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

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