[Frontispiece to Gray's Poems] [art original]

Description

Title: [Frontispiece to Gray's Poems] [art original]
Creator: Thomson, Henry, 1773-1843, artist
Published / Created: [not after 1843]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Two women in neoclassical dress hold garlands and dance around a bust statue of Thomas Gray; trees and bushes are seen in the background
Description: Title devised by curator.
Signed by the artist in lower left corner.
Date of production based on artist's death date.
Bound in as the frontispiece in an extra-illustrated copy of Thomas Gray's Poems.
Provenance: Formerly owned by the Earl of Rosebery, with his armorial bookplate and book-stamp in the volume. Purchased by W.S. Lewis from James F. Carr, July 1965.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 13.2 x 10.6 cm, mounted to 19.4 x 12.6 cm
Language: English

Genre: Frontispieces
Watercolors
Material: watercolor with crayon ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771,
Subject (Topic): Women
Dance
Sculpture
Subjects: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
Women
Dance
Sculpture
Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of, 1847-1929 > Ownership

Access: Public
Rights: The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Citation: Henry Thomson, Frontispiece to Gray's Poems. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.