A favrite [sic] has no friend [graphic]

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Title: A favrite [sic] has no friend [graphic]
Alternative Title: Favorite has no friend
Creator: Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810, printmaker
Contributor: Bentley, R. 1708-1782, artist.
Published / Created: [1753]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: R. Dodsley
Description: Title from text etched within banner at bottom of image.
Printmaker identified by Horace Walpole in his copy of Gray's Odes in The Lewis Walpole Library.
Publication information from book in which this plate was published.
Frontispiece to: Ode on the death of a favourite cat.
Plate from: Designs by Mr. R. Bentley for six poems by Mr. T. Gray. London : Printed for R. Dodsley, 1753.
Provenance: Gift of Joseph Verner Reed (Yale 1926) to the Yale Library, 1958. Portions were transferred to Lewis Walpole Library 1960. For other items from this gift refer to Beinecke Library's GEN MSS 1000.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 26.4 x 21 cm, on sheet 35 x 24 cm
Language: English

Genre: Illustrations
Book illustrations
Engravings England London 1753
Etchings England London 1753
Material: etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771.
Subjects: Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771 > Illustrations
England > London > 1753
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

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