Download/Print Selected Image
Copy Caption to clipboard
James Gillray, 1756–1815, British, Patience on a Monument, 1791
- Title:
Patience on a Monument
- Date:
- 1791
- Medium:
- Etching, hand-colored
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 12 x 8in. (30.5 x 20.3cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside image, lower center: "'By Patience, minds an equal temper know, | 'Nor swell too high nor sink too low; | 'Patience the fiercest grief can charm, | 'And fate's severest rage disarm; ; | 'Patience can soften pain to ease | 'And make despair and madness please | 'This the divine Cecilia found, | 'And to her Husbdands ears, confind the sound,' | Vide St. Cecilias Day"; lower left: "Pubd. Septr. 19th, 1791. by H. Humphrey. N.18 Old Bond Street'; lettered below image, lower center: "'PATIENCE on a MONUMENT.' | Engrav'd from a Modern Antique, in the Possesion of the General."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1981.25.1025
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:41743
- Export:
- XML
- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
If you have information about this object that may be of assistance please contact us.