Illustration for the Poem ‘A Long Story’
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: Johann Sebastian Müller, German, ca. 1715 - 1792
label: Publisher
content: James Dodlsey, British, 1724 – 1797
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: 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.
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: 1921-6-550-11
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Bound print
label: Type
content: Bound print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Etching on laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: Sheet: 37.3 × 26.2 cm (14 11/16 × 10 5/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 30.6 × 24 cm (12 1/16 × 9 7/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 28.7 × 21.7 cm (11 5/16 × 8 9/16 in.)