Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard.
date: label: Date
content: 1753
name: label: Author
content: Thomas Gray, British, 1716 – 1771
label: Artist
content: Richard Bentley, British, 1708 – 1782
label: Print Maker
content: Charles Grignion I, British, 1717 - 1810
label: Publisher
content: James Dodlsey, British, 1724 – 1797
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: First page of the poem ‘Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard’. The text is letterpress printed with an etched illuminated letter ‘T’, decorated with a church in the background. An etched and signed headpiece above, depicting a landscape with workers in a field, a man chopping a tree and another man in a cart with three horses pulling him through a river. In the background, a house, trees, and a hill. The scene is framed by c-scrolls, fleurons, acanthus leaf scrolls, flowers and a tambourine and horn above.
place: label: made in
content: England
label: published in
content: London, United Kingdom
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Purchased for the Museum by the Advisory Council
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1921-6-550-18
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bound print
label: Type
content: Bound print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Letterpress and etching on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 37.3 × 26.5 cm (14 11/16 × 10 7/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 12.3 × 20.5 cm (4 13/16 × 8 1/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 11.6 × 19.2 cm (4 9/16 × 7 9/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Opening Letter Platemark: 3.6 × 4 cm (1 7/16 × 1 9/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Opening Letter Image: 2.9 × 3.2 cm (1 1/8 × 1 1/4 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Lettering: 10 × 14.8 cm (3 15/16 × 5 13/16 in.)