BIB_ID
130599
Accession number
MA 1193.3
Creator
Browning, Robert, 1812-1889.
Display Date
1866 Feb. 22.
Credit line
Estate of J.P. Morgan Jr., 1944.
Description
1 item (1 p., bound) ; 11.3 x 17.8 cm
Notes
9 lines.
9 variant renderings in Latin of "You ought to sit upon the safety-valve".
Bound in a volume that includes a manuscript of "Home thoughts from abroad" (MA 1193.1), a transcript of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "She was fifteen -- had great eyes" (MA 1193.2), a manuscript of "Plane te valvam fas est pressisse salutis" (MA 1193.3), and two engraved portraits, one cataloged separately as MA 1193.4 and one matching the print described in MA 997.1 (here labeled MA 1193.5).
Includes autograph note: "(on being defied to put 'you ought to sit upon the safety-valve' into a hexameter)."
9 variant renderings in Latin of "You ought to sit upon the safety-valve".
Bound in a volume that includes a manuscript of "Home thoughts from abroad" (MA 1193.1), a transcript of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "She was fifteen -- had great eyes" (MA 1193.2), a manuscript of "Plane te valvam fas est pressisse salutis" (MA 1193.3), and two engraved portraits, one cataloged separately as MA 1193.4 and one matching the print described in MA 997.1 (here labeled MA 1193.5).
Includes autograph note: "(on being defied to put 'you ought to sit upon the safety-valve' into a hexameter)."
Provenance
Purchased by J.P. Morgan Jr. at a Browning sale, London, 1913 (catalog no. 187).
Housed in
Blue cloth drop-spine box (35.3 cm)
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