- Title:
- Frontispiece, Monument to John Gay
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1793
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Binding: 10 1/2 inches (26.7 cm), Sheet: 10 1/2 × 6 5/8 inches (26.7 × 16.8 cm), Image: 5 1/4 × 2 7/8 inches (13.3 × 7.3 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside image, center: "Of Manners gentle, of Affection mild, | In Wit a Man, Simplicity a Chid; | With nature Humour, tempiring virtuous rage, | Form'd to delight at once, and lash the Age. | Above Temptation, in a low Estate, | An uncorrupted ev'n among the Great, | A safe Companion and an easy Friend. | Unblam'd thro' Life, lamented in thy end | These are thy Honours; not that here thy Bust, | Is mixed with Heroes, or with Kings thy Dust; but that the Worthy and Good shall say | Striking their pensive bosoms- Here lies GAY. | A. Pope; lower center: CHARLES and CATHERINE, Duke and Duchess of of Queensberry, | who loved this Excellent Person living, and regret him dead, | have caused this monument to be errected in his Memory."; lettered below image, lower center | "Wilson, sculp | Publish'd Jan. 1, 1793 by I. Stockdale, Piccadilly."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Kenneth D. Rapoport, MD
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1982.22.1(1)
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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Print made by William C. Wilson, active 1798–1836, Frontispiece, Monument to John Gay, 1793
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