A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
A selection of stock we have recently added to our website.
VAT included (see terms) | Exclude VAT
Urn to Dr Johnson at Gwagnynog.
W. Thomas sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving. Sheet 160 x 100mm (6¼ x 4"). Trimmed within plate.
In 1774 Samuel Johnson toured North Wales with Hester Thrale. He visited Gwaenynog Hall in Denbigh, home of John Myddleton, who erected a monument to the visit of the literary titan. Johnson was not impressed: in a 1777 letter to Mrs Thrale he wrote, 'Mr Myddleton’s erection of an urn looks like an invention to bury me alive; I would as willingly see my friend, however benevolent and hospitable, quietly inured. Let him think, for the present, of some more acceptable memorial'.
[Ref: 57568] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)
W. Thomas sculp.t.
[n.d., c.1800.]
Engraving. Sheet 160 x 100mm (6¼ x 4"). Trimmed within plate.
In 1774 Samuel Johnson toured North Wales with Hester Thrale. He visited Gwaenynog Hall in Denbigh, home of John Myddleton, who erected a monument to the visit of the literary titan. Johnson was not impressed: in a 1777 letter to Mrs Thrale he wrote, 'Mr Myddleton’s erection of an urn looks like an invention to bury me alive; I would as willingly see my friend, however benevolent and hospitable, quietly inured. Let him think, for the present, of some more acceptable memorial'.
[Ref: 57568] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)