BIB_ID
105870
Accession number
MA 3389
Creator
Gray, Thomas, 1716-1771.
Display Date
England, 1757.
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Julia P. Wightman in honor of Charles Ryskamp, 1979.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 15.7 cm
Notes
Gray wrote this poem in 1747; Carolina Pery dates this fair copy to 1757 on verso: "Known to be Mr. Gray's hand writing about the year 1757 by Carolina Pery."
Formerly housed in a red quarter morocco slipcase by James Macdonald (17.8 cm).
Formerly housed in a red quarter morocco slipcase by James Macdonald (17.8 cm).
Provenance
Sale (Sotheby's, 18 July 1967, lot 537); sale (Christie's, A. A. Houghton sale, 14 June 1979, lot 234).
Summary
Poem written after the drowning death of Selima, one of Horace Walpole's cats.
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