print; portfolio

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Object Type: print; portfolio
Museum number: 1862,0524.22-50
Title: Object: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Description: "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, by T. Gray. Illustrated by the Etching Club" (London, J. Cundall for the Etching Club) 1847; a portfolio of 18 plates, numbered I to XVIII, with etched vignettes by different printmakers accompanying verses of the poem. In original blue portfolio with gold-tooled title, together with engraved dedication, list of illustrations, and title sheet. Proofs. Etchings, printed on chine collé
Producer name: Print made by: Etching Club; Print made by: Thomas Creswick; Print made by: Charles Stonhouse; Print made by: Richard Redgrave; Print made by: Henry James Townsend; Print made by: Charles West Cope; Print made by: Frederick Tayler; Print made by: John Bell; Print made by: John Callcott Horsley; Published by: Joseph Cundall; Printed by: Gad & Co
School/style
Production date: 1847
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 440 millimetres (sheet size); Width: 293 millimetres
Curator's comments: A number of loose impressions of prints from this series are kept elsewhere in the collection.
Location: Not on display
Subjects: poetry; funeral/funerary rite; church
Associated names: Illustration to: Thomas Gray; Named in inscription: Queen Victoria (dedicatee); Associated with: Albert, Prince Consort (dedicatee)
Associated titles
Acquisition date: 1862
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1862,0524.22-50

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