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Memoir of Joseph Brashbridge Front Piece

Maker

(artist)
1700-1799

Title

Memoir of Joseph Brashbridge Front Piece

Medium

Engraving

Dimensions

Height: 16 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

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