- Title:
- 'One radiant mark, – the death-bed of the just' (Page 41)
- Part Of:
- Date:
- ca. 1797
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching, line engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm), Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 5/8 inches (41.9 x 32.1 cm), Plate: 16 1/8 x 12 5/8 inches (41 x 32.1 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside image: "41 | On this side death; and points them out to men: | A lecture silent, but of sovereign power! | To vice, confusion; and to virtue, peace. | Whatever farce the boastful hero plays, | Virtue alone has majesty in death; | And greater still, the more the tyrant frowns: | PHILANDER! he severely frown'd on thee: | 'No warning given--unceremonious fate! | 'A sudden rush from life's meridian joys! | 'A wrench from all we love--from all we are! | 'A restless bed of pain! a plunge opaque | 'Beyond conjecture! feeble nature's dread! | 'Strong reason's shudder at the dark unknown! | 'A sun extinguish'd! a just opening grave! | 'And oh! the last--last--what? can words express? | 'Thought reach? the last, last--silence of a friend!' | Where are those horrors, that amazement where, | This hideous group of ills, which singly shock? | Demand from man--I thought him man till now. | Through nature's wreck, through vanquish'd agonies, | Like the stars struggling through this midnight gloom, | What gleams of joy! what more than human peace! | Where, the frail mortal? the poor abject worm? | No, not in death, the mortal to be found. | His conduct is a legacy for all, | Richer than Mammon's for his single heir: | His comforters he comforts; great in ruin, | With unreluctant grandeur gives, not yields | His soul sublime; and closes with his fate."; lower right: "London: Pub. Mar. 22, 1797, by R. Edwards, 142 New Bond Street."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1978.43.1398
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- angels | clouds | literary theme | text | wings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:2324
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The Romantic Print in the Age of Revolutions: Hero, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-01-23 - 2003-06-01) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]