Lettered inside image, lower center: "'By Patience, minds an equal temper know, | 'Nor swell too high nor sink too low; | 'Patience the fiercest grief can charm, | 'And fate's severest rage disarm; ; | 'Patience can soften pain to ease | 'And make despair and madness please | 'This the divine Cecilia found, | 'And to her Husbdands ears, confind the sound,' | Vide St. Cecilias Day"; lower left: "Pubd. Septr. 19th, 1791. by H. Humphrey. N.18 Old Bond Street'; lettered below image, lower center: "'PATIENCE on a MONUMENT.' | Engrav'd from a Modern Antique, in the Possesion of the General."
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Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection