Memoir of Joseph Brashbridge Front Piece
Maker
(artist)
1700-1799
1700-1799
Title
Memoir of Joseph Brashbridge Front Piece
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Height: 16 cm
Width: 9 cm
Width: 9 cm
Accession Number
G.1990.WL.3736
Mode of Acquisition
Witt Library, transfer, 1990
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
Work in the public domain
Location
Not currently on display
Keywords
autobiography
Provenance
Information not yet known or updated
Inscriptions
Inscription: Recto: upper centre, printed: The / Fruits of Experience; / or, / Memoir / of / Joseph Brasbridge / written in his 80th Year.
Inscription: Recto: lower centre, printed: Thou now this grained face of mine lie hid/ in sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow, / Yet hath my night of life some memory, / My Wasting lamp some fading glimmer left / Shakespeare.
Inscription: Inscription: lower centre, printed: LONDON: / Printed for the Author / Sold by Simpkin and Marshall, Sationers' Court, / And Joseph Capes, Fleet Street/ 1824.
Stamp: Recto: upper right mount, stamped: WITT / LIBRARY
Stamp: Recto: lower right mount, stamped: M
Inscription: Recto: lower centre, printed: Thou now this grained face of mine lie hid/ in sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow, / Yet hath my night of life some memory, / My Wasting lamp some fading glimmer left / Shakespeare.
Inscription: Inscription: lower centre, printed: LONDON: / Printed for the Author / Sold by Simpkin and Marshall, Sationers' Court, / And Joseph Capes, Fleet Street/ 1824.
Stamp: Recto: upper right mount, stamped: WITT / LIBRARY
Stamp: Recto: lower right mount, stamped: M
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