Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

The tomb of Cestius, also [drawing].

BIB_ID
315162
Accession number
MA 406.23
Published
1823 or later
Description
1 drawing.
Notes
After Shelley was cremated, Trelawny collected his ashes and placed them (in 1823) in the protestant cemetery in Rome.
Inscribed at foot "The burial place of John Keats the Poet and of Percy Bysshe Shelley."
237 x 138 mm
Summary
A sketch of two flat grave markers for "J.K." and "P.B.S." at the foot of a ruined and overgrown tower.
Medium
graphite on paper.
Classification