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- Title:
A Sketch of the Monument Erected in the Church of East Dereham in Norfolk in Memory of William Cowper Esq.
- Part Of:
Collective Title: The Life, and Posthumous Writings, of William Cowper
- Date:
- 1804
- Medium:
- Etching and line engraving on medium, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Binding: 11 1/2 inches (29.2 cm), Sheet: 11 3/8 × 9 inches (28.9 × 22.9 cm), Image: 5 1/4 × 6 inches (13.3 × 15.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside image, center: "In Memory | of William Cowper Esq. | Born in Hertfordshire 1731 | Burried in this church 1800 | Ye, who with warmth the public triumph feel | of talents, dignified by sacred zeal | Here, to devotion's bard devoutly just | Pay your fond tribute due to Cowper's dust! | England exulting in his spotless fame, | ranks with her dearest sons his fav'rite name: | Sense, fancy, wit suffice not all to raise | so clear a title to affections praise; | His highest honours to the heart belong; | his virtues form'd the magic of his song."; lettered below image, lower center: "A Sketch of the Monument | Erected in the Church of East Dereham in Norfolk | In Memory of William Cowper Esq. | Etch'd by W. Blake from the original Model | by John Flaxman Esq. Sculptor to his Majesty | Publish'd by J. Johnson St Paul 25 March 1804"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1978.43.1671
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:7570
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