- Published / Created:
- published according to act of Parliament, [1760]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A pyramid-shaped monument with a caricatured portrait in profile of Wolfe; the plinth engraved with the text: 'Set honour in one eye and death in tother and I will look on both indifferent and let the gods so speed me as I love the name of honour more than I fear death.' At the foot of the monument lies a dead lion with the words 'Here lies honour' engraved on its hind leg. A dog with a collar labelled 'Minden' (an allusion Lord George Sackville's disgrace at the Battle of Minden) turns back and barks at the image: 'Honours a jest & all things show it. I thought so once but now I know it." He steps with his paws on a laurel wreath
- Description:
- Title etched beneath image., Formerly attributed to William Hogarth., One line of text above image: A living dog is better than a dead lion. Cf. Ecclesiastes ix.4., Reference to John Gay's quote on his tomb: Life is a jest; and all things show it, I thought so once; but now I know it., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: See Mr. Nichols's book, 3d. edit, p. 454. Spurious., and On page 185 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed to: 34.7 x 23.1 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Sackville, George Germain, Viscount, 1716-1785 and Wolfe, James, 1727-1759
- Subject (Topic):
- Monument, Dogs, Lions, and Monuments & memorials
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The vanity of human glory a design for the monument of General Wolfe 1760. [graphic]
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- Published / Created:
- published according to act of Parliament, [1760]
- Call Number:
- Kinnaird 74K(c) Box 220
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A pyramid-shaped monument with a caricatured portrait in profile of Wolfe; the plinth engraved with the text: 'Set honour in one eye and death in tother and I will look on both indifferent and let the gods so speed me as I love the name of honour more than I fear death.' At the foot of the monument lies a dead lion with the words 'Here lies honour' engraved on its hind leg. A dog with a collar labelled 'Minden' (an allusion Lord George Sackville's disgrace at the Battle of Minden) turns back and barks at the image: 'Honours a jest & all things show it. I thought so once but now I know it." He steps with his paws on a laurel wreath
- Description:
- Title etched beneath image., Formerly attributed to William Hogarth., One line of text above image: A living dog is better than a dead lion. Cf. Ecclesiastes ix.4., Reference to John Gay's quote on his tomb: Life is a jest; and all things show it, I thought so once; but now I know it., and Sheet trimmed to 346 x 248 mm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Sackville, George Germain, Viscount, 1716-1785 and Wolfe, James, 1727-1759
- Subject (Topic):
- Monument, Dogs, Lions, and Monuments & memorials
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The vanity of human glory a design for the monument of General Wolfe 1760. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- published according to act of Parliament, [1760]
- Call Number:
- 760.00.00.23+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A pyramid-shaped monument with a caricatured portrait in profile of Wolfe; the plinth engraved with the text: 'Set honour in one eye and death in tother and I will look on both indifferent and let the gods so speed me as I love the name of honour more than I fear death.' At the foot of the monument lies a dead lion with the words 'Here lies honour' engraved on its hind leg. A dog with a collar labelled 'Minden' (an allusion Lord George Sackville's disgrace at the Battle of Minden) turns back and barks at the image: 'Honours a jest & all things show it. I thought so once but now I know it." He steps with his paws on a laurel wreath
- Description:
- Title etched beneath image., Formerly attributed to William Hogarth., One line of text above image: A living dog is better than a dead lion. Cf. Ecclesiastes ix.4., and Reference to John Gay's quote on his tomb: Life is a jest; and all things show it, I thought so once; but now I know it.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Sackville, George Germain, Viscount, 1716-1785 and Wolfe, James, 1727-1759
- Subject (Topic):
- Monument, Dogs, Lions, and Monuments & memorials
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The vanity of human glory a design for the monument of General Wolfe 1760. [graphic]