[Epitaph for Robert Smythson] [art original].

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Title: [Epitaph for Robert Smythson] [art original].
Alternative Title: Here lyeth [the] body of Mr. Robert Smythson Gent. architector ...
Published / Created: [not after 1797]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Simplified depiction of the memorial to the architect Robert Smythson in St. Leonard's Church, Wollaton. A coat of arms is drawn at the top of the sheet, with the text of the epitaph written below. The decorative stonework, which surrounds the epitaph on the memorial, is not depicted
Description: Title devised by curator.
Unsigned; artist unidentified.
Date based on death date of Horace Walpole, who assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is mounted.
Text of epitaph: Here lyeth [the] body of Mr. Robert Smythson Gent. architector and svrvayor vnto the most worthy hovse of Wollaton with diverse others of great accovnt, he lived in [the] fayth of Christ 79 yeares, & then departed this life [the] XVh of October, año Dm̃i 1614.
Mounted on end flyleaf in volume 2 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of Anecdotes of painting in England.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Horace Walpole, with his armorial bookplate, notes, etc. in the volume. Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day iv, lot 139, to Boone for Lord Derby. Sold at Christie's, 20 October 1953 (Knowsley Hall Sale), lot 314. Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Maggs.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 19.7 x 13.4 cm, mounted to 23.4 x 18.5 cm
Language: English

Genre: Ink drawings
Wash drawings
Material: pen and brown ink, ink wash, and gray wash ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Smythson, Robert, 1534 or 1535-1614.
Subject (Topic): Monuments & memorials
Coats of arms
Subjects: Smythson, Robert, 1534 or 1535-1614
Monuments & memorials
Coats of arms
Derby, Edward John Stanley, 18th earl of, 1918- > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Epitaph for Robert Smythson. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.