Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Full-page illustration for the poem ‘A Long Story’. Two topless women, wearing hooped petticoats, with a dressed man crouching beneath the skirts. The woman to the left opens the door to an outhouse, and the woman on the right holds a lyre. The figures stand within a garden landscape with trees and a house in the background. Above two flying fairies and a male winged figure blowing a horn. The scene is framed within an arabesque border, featuring mascarons, flowers, palm leaves, acanthus and c-scrolls, jugs, a cannon, and a fanned palmette and fleurons ornament above, with strapwork below. A male figure stands on one leg to the left on a plinth with tassels. 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
- Etching on laid paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 37.3 × 26.2 cm (14 11/16 × 10 5/16 in.)
- Platemark: 30.6 × 24 cm (12 1/16 × 9 7/16 in.)
- Image: 28.7 × 21.7 cm (11 5/16 × 8 9/16 in.)
- Object Name
- Bound print
- Type
- Bound print
