page_title: John Gilbert Cooper
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: John Gilbert Cooper / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Miravan - a painting of Joseph Wright
context_page_description: John Gilbert Cooper or John Gilbert was a British poet and writer.
context_section_description: Besides Cooper's books he also inspired a noted painting by Joseph Wright of Derby. The painting entitled Miravan Breaking Open the Tomb of his Ancestors was based on a story in Cooper's Letters of Taste. Cooper had recounted a story where a greedy nobleman despoils his ancestor's grave in search of riches to find himself cursed by his ancestor.
caption: Detail of Wright's painting
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