Poets and Statesmen: Their Homes and Memorials in the Neighbourhood of Windsor & Eton

Various artists/makers

1856

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Title: Poets and Statesmen: Their Homes and Memorials in the Neighbourhood of Windsor & Eton
Author: William Dowling (British, 1856–66)
Illustrator: Charles Walter Radclyffe (British, Birmingham 1807–1903 Birmingham)
Illustrator: James Chapman (British, active 1856)
Engraver: Edward Radclyffe (British, baptised 1810–1863 London)
Dedicatee: Edward Craven Hawtrey (British, Burnham 1789–1862 Eton)
Publisher: Charles Griffin & Company, Ltd. (London)
Subject: John Milton (British, London 1608–1674 London)
Subject: Abraham Cowley (British, 1618–1667)
Subject: Sir John Denham (British, 1615–1668)
Subject: Edmund Waller (British, 1606–1687)
Subject: Alexander Pope (British, 1688–1744)
Sitter: The Right Honorable Edmund Burke (British, born Ireland, Dublin 1729–1797 Beaconsfield)
Sitter: George Canning (British, 1770–1827)
Sitter: George Grenville (British, 1750–1830)
Sitter: Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (British, 1769–1852)
Published in: London
Date: 1856
Medium: Illustrations: steel engraving
Dimensions: 8 3/4 x 6 1/2 x 1 3/4 in. (22.2 x 16.5 x 4.4 cm)
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Gift of Beulah Dimmick Chase, 1947
Object Number: 47.98.14
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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