FDA-E.790-2013
Parts
Object number
FDA-E.790-2013
Object type
Identification
Title
'Say, Father Thames, for thou hast seen...', Gray's Ode
Title Type
assigned by cataloguer
Description
Printed black & white view showing boys bathing in the river, with Eton College Chapel behind
Comments
Illustration to verse from Gray's Ode
Other number
CL 88
Description
Content (place)
Eton College
Dimensions
height (sight size): 495mm
width (sight size): 610mm
width (sight size): 610mm
Inscription
'J C[?] pinxit. Silvester sculpsit. / Say Father Thames for thou hast seen / Full many a sprightly race, / Dispporting on they margent green, / The pathes [sic] of pleasure trace. / Gray's Ode / London, Published June 1. 1803. by R. Silvester. No.27. Strand'
Materials & techniques note
Stipple engraving
Physical description
Carved gilt 19th century frame
Production
Person
Silvester, Richard William, 1771 - 1840 (Engraver)
Cipriani, Giovanni Battista, 1727 - 1785 (Source artist)
Cipriani, Giovanni Battista, 1727 - 1785 (Source artist)
Date
01/06/1803
History and association
Associated object
FDA-E.678-2012 (another impression)
