print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1850,1214.35
- Description
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Some village Hampden; four figures stopping people at a gate, two men in the foreground leaning against the gate which further figures push from the other side who speak to the third man inside the gate on the right, a boy in the left foreground using a stick against dogs outside, horsemen in the background approaching to the gate; plate 10 to Gray's 'Elegy in a country churchyard' (Etching Club: 1847); first state before the plate size reduced and the right foreground reworked. 1847
Etching, printed on chine collé
- Production date
- 1847
- Dimensions
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Height: 273 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 191 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1840,1214.33 for comment.
A complete copy of the Etching Club's "Elegy" series is kept at 190*.b.14 (1862,0524.22 to 50).
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Elegy in a country churchyard
- Acquisition date
- 1850
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1850,1214.35