A poet sits at a table, pen in hand, posed to write on the sheet of paper before him. On the floor is a discarded piece of paper. His hat and coat hang from a peg on the wall beside the chimney above which is a shelf of books and a picture of a Greek...
Alternative Title:
Distressed poet
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Attics, Interiors, Poets, Poor persons, and Writing
Watt, W. H. (William Henry), 1804-1845, printmaker, publisher
Published / Created:
[June 1828]
Call Number:
Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait; short half-length standing facing front, looking away to left, arms slightly extended, wearing a dark double-breasted coat with a high collar, dark cravat tied in a bow around a wing collar and a monocle on a ribbon around his neck; in an o...
Description:
Title in open letters below image.
Publisher:
Published June 1828 by W.H. Watt and Printed by McQueen
"Portrait of Thomas Tickell; half length, to the right, head turned and looking to the left; wearing open jacket, cravat, and periwig; in oval."--British Museum online catalogue
Script numbers 1-19 from the Voice of America Forum Lectures in American Poetry series. Each script contains a lecture written by a different poet. Poets represented are: Conrad Aiken, Ben Bellitt, John Berryman, John Brinnin, Gregory Corso, J.V. Cunn...
Description:
The Voice of America Forum Lectures in American Poetry series was broadcast internationally by the Voice of America radio program, which covered topics in the arts and sciences in mid-twentieth century America.
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Aiken, Conrad, 1889-1973., Bellitt, Ben., Berryman, John, 1914-1972., Brinnin, John Malcolm, 1916-1998., Corso, Gregory., Cunningham, J. V. 1911-1985. (James Vincent),, Dickey, James., Duncan, Robert, 1919-1988., Eberhart, Richard, 1904-2005., Gilbert, Jack, 1925-2012., Howes, Barbara., Miller, Vassar., Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972., Nemerov, Howard., Smith, William Jay, 1918-2015., Swenson, May., Weiss, Theodore Russell, 1916-2003., Whittemore, Reed, 1919-2012., Wilbur, Richard, 1921-2017., and Voice of America (Organization)
Subject (Topic):
American poetry, Poets, and International broadcasting
In an attic, a man in a dressing-gown scratches his head as he writes. He is seated on a chair; behind him his bed is folded up in his sparsely furnished garret. Beside him is a ink well and a candle in a bottle. He rests his left elbow on a pile of b...
Alternative Title:
Distressed poet
Description:
Title devised by cataloger.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Attics, Interiors, Poets, Poor persons, and Poverty
Plate [183] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Vignette to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; vignette with eight portrait medallions of poets on a stone standing in water with lyre in centre, weeping willow overhanging and temple of muses behind."--British Museum online catalogue
Half-length portrait of Thomas Gray in profile. Gray wears a powdered wig and dark coat and vest. He gazes through a window at a landscape. Visible in the distance is St. Giles’s church at Stoke Poges, Buckinghamshire, England. The church is the sett...
A half-length portrait of Mason in profile facing left. The esteemed poet is portrayed holding a manuscript of his epitaph for his wife’s grave in Bristol Cathedral
Half-length, oval portrait of Philip Sidney, English poet, courtier, scholar, and soldier, bust directed to left but looking at the viewer, wearing a ruff and armour
Alternative Title:
Sir Philip Sidney
Description:
Title devised by curator, based on published print after this drawing.
