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: Publisher
content: James Dodlsey, British, 1724 – 1797
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: First page of the poem ‘A Long Story’. The text is letterpress printed with an etched illuminated letter ‘I’, decorated with feathers, furs, a staff, and crown. An etched headpiece above, depicting a landscape with a large country house and a church to the right, with a river and trees in the foreground.
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: 1921-6-550-12
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 × 26.3 cm (14 11/16 × 10 3/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Platemark: 11 × 20.2 cm (4 5/16 × 7 15/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Image: 9.6 × 18.5 cm (3 3/4 × 7 5/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Opening Letter Platemark: 4 × 4.2 cm (1 9/16 × 1 5/8 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Opening Letter Image: 3.3 × 3.3 cm (1 5/16 × 1 5/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: Lettering: 12.4 × 15.6 cm (4 7/8 × 6 1/8 in.)