Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Title page for a book of illustrated poems. The title is printed in letterpress in the center of the page, with an etched vignette in the center in between the title and the date/address. The vignette depicts a monkey sitting on a stool, holding paint brushes and a palette, painting at an easel within a mountainous and rocky landscape with trees and foliage. To his right a seated male nude, wearing a crown of laurel leaves playing a lyr. The plate is signed
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Author
- Thomas Gray, British, 1716 – 1771
- Artist
- Richard Bentley, British, 1708 – 1782
- Print Maker
- Johann Sebastian Müller, German, ca. 1715 - 1792
- Publisher
- James Dodlsey, British, 1724 – 1797
- Date
- 1753
- Credit Line
- Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
- Medium
- Letterpress and etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 37.3 × 26.5 cm (14 11/16 × 10 7/16 in.)
- Platemark: 9.3 × 14 cm (3 11/16 × 5 1/2 in.)
- Image: 8 × 12.6 cm (3 1/8 × 4 15/16 in.)
- Lettering: 23.7 × 14.5 cm (9 5/16 × 5 11/16 in.)
- Object Name
- Bound print
- Type
- Bound print
