The Virtues adorning the Bust of the Ever Memorable Howard.No single tract of earth could bind, / The active virtues of his mind, / To all the lands where'er the tear [...]
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Published 10.th July 1797 by John Fairburn, 116 Minories, London.
Rare stipple printed in sepia, sheet 130 x 175mm (5 x 7"). Trimmed;
Tribute to the philanthropist John Howard (1726?-1790), with the Virtues adorning his bust and verses from William Hayley's 'Ode, inscribed to John Howard, Esq' (1780) below. The print was first published by Thomas Prattent shortly after Howard's death; this is a reprint from several years later after the plate had been acquired by another publisher, John Fairburn.
[Ref: 45704] £95.00
Published 10.th July 1797 by John Fairburn, 116 Minories, London.
Rare stipple printed in sepia, sheet 130 x 175mm (5 x 7"). Trimmed;
Tribute to the philanthropist John Howard (1726?-1790), with the Virtues adorning his bust and verses from William Hayley's 'Ode, inscribed to John Howard, Esq' (1780) below. The print was first published by Thomas Prattent shortly after Howard's death; this is a reprint from several years later after the plate had been acquired by another publisher, John Fairburn.
[Ref: 45704] £95.00