GOLDSMITH'S GRAVE.

OLIVER GOLDSMITH died in his Chambers, No. 2, Brick Court, Middle Temple, early in the morning of April 4th, 1774, at the age of forty-five. At five o'clock in the evening of Saturday, April 9th, he was laid to rest in the Burial ground of the Middle Temple, on the north side of the Church. No monument or even flat grave-stone, at least bearing any name by which it could be identified, appears to have been placed over the grave at the time. It was not until some forty years since that the present stone, with the inscription: "Here lies Oliver Goldsmith," was placed by the Bench of the Middle Temple in the situation shewn in the Etching. On almost all days in the year and notably on Sundays, pilgrims, not only of the English-speaking races, may be seen standing reverently round the grave.

The reclining figure, and the Bust, against the wall of the Master's House, are those respectively of John Miles Hiccock (1726), and Samuel Mead (1733).

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Yale Center for British Art, 2012