[Monument to John Gay] [art original]

Description

Title: [Monument to John Gay] [art original]
Creator: Gravelot, Hubert François, 1699-1773, artist
Published / Created: [ca. 1738?]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Depiction of the monument to John Gay in Westminster Abbey; a sculptural bust of Gay, in profile to the right, sits in an oval and rests on a plinth supported by a cherub to the left, who drapes a cloth over the right side of the oval. An obelisk with ornaments is behind, all beneath an arch supported by columns. A memorial by Alexander Pope is inscribed on the plinth, and a dedication from the Duke and Duchess of Queensberry is inscribed at the bottom of the monument
Description: Titled devised by curator.
Signed by the artist in lower right corner.
Possibly a design drawing for an engraving with the signatures "H. Gravelot delin." and "J. Scotin sculp." and the publication line "Publish'd Sep. 29, 1738, by J. & P. Knapton & T. Cox". This plate was issued as the frontispiece to: Fables. By the late Mr. Gay. Volume the second. London : Printed for J. and P. Knapton, and T. Cox, 1738.
Mounted after page 214 (leaf numbered '108' in pencil) in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of Joseph Spence's Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Provenance: Sold at Christie's, 20 October 1953, lot 285 of Derby sale, to W.S. Lewis.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 16.6 x 11 cm, inlaid to 38 x 27 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Quarto 53 Sp3 820a v.3
Collection Title: Volume 3, after page 214. Anecdotes, observations, and characters, of books and men.
Collection / Other Creator: Spence, Joseph, 1699-1768.
Collection Date: London : Published by W.H. Carpenter, Lower Brook Street, and Archibald Constable and Co., Edinburgh, 1820.

Genre: Frontispieces
Book illustrations
Ink drawings
Wash drawings
Material: ink and wash ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Gay, John, 1685-1732,
Westminster Abbey.
Subject (Topic): Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Subjects: Gay, John, 1685-1732
Westminster Abbey
Tombs & sepulchral monuments

Access: Public
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Citation: Hubert François Gravelot, Monument to John Gay. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.