Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771
Title:
An elegy written in a country churchyard / by Thomas Gray.
Published / Created:
London : Sampson Low, Son, and Marston, Crown Buildings, Fleet Street, 1869.
Physical Description:
[3], 5-15 leaves, [18] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Rosemarie Haag Bletter and Martin Filler.
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes facsimile of the author's manuscript, "the autograph at Pembroke House, Cambridge, being manifestly a fair copy made by the poet ..."
Exhibition History:
Color Printing in England, 1486-1870 (Yale Center for British Art, April 20, 1978-June 25, 1978)
Subject Terms:
English poetry. | Elegaic poetry, English. | Cooper, Clay, & Co. -- Printer.
Form/Genre:
Poems. | Chromolithographs -- 1869.
Contributors:
Sampson Low, Son & Marston, publisher. | Barnes, Robert, 1840–1895, illustrator. | Leitch, R. P. (Richard Pettigrew), illustrator. | Wimperis, Edmund Morrison, 1835–1900, illustrator. | Staniland, Charles Joseph, 1838–1916, illustrator.