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Decorated initial "T" to Ode on the death of a favourite cat ...
Title
[Decorated initial "T" to Ode on the death of a favourite cat ...] [graphic].
Publication
[London] : [R. Dodsley], [1753]
Physical Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; plate mark 4 x 4 cm
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
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.
Plate from: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. London : Printed for R. Dodsley, 1753.
Original drawing: Bentley, R. (Richard), 1708-1782. Decorated initial "T" to Ode on the death of a favourite cat ... 1753. 1 drawing : pen and ink. In The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University. Farmington, CT (49 3698).
Provenance
Sotheby's 14 July 1924 (Miscellaneous sale), lot 183 to Spencer. Formerly owned by Kirgate's friend William Bawtree (1744-1824) engraver.
Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 04, 2016
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Book illustrations.
Engravings - England - London - 1753.
Etchings - England - London - 1753.
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