"Patience on a monument" [graphic] : engrav'd from a modern antique in the possession of the General.

Published/Created:

[London]
Pubd. Septr. 19th, 1791, by H. Humphrey, N. 18 Old Bond Street
[19 September 1791]

Copyright Date:

[19 September 1791]

Physical Description:

1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 32 x 23 cm

Related Links:

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6, no. 7971

Notes:

Title etched below image.
Printmaker from British Museum catalogue.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted to 34 x 24 cm.

Abstract:

"The design simulates a pyramidal monument in bas relief against a stone wall, supported on short Corinthian pilasters between which is an inscription. On the face of the pyramid Lady Cecilia Johnston, is seated in profile to the right on a round close-stool. She is thin and witch-like, her chin is support by her left hand, the elbow resting on her knee. In her right hand is a torn paper inscribed 'Tranquility'. Behind the stool stands a little cupid holding his nose; in his left hand is a torch, reversed. On the ground (right) are bones and two skulls which gaze at Lady Cecilia. Beneath is the inscription: "By Patience, minds an equal temper know, Nor swell too high, nor sink too low; Patience the fiercest grief can charm, And fate's severest rage disarm: Patience can soften pain to ease, And make despair and madness please, This the divine Cecilia found, And to her Husbands ears, confind the sound." Vide St Cecilias Day."--British Museum online catalogue.
The allusions are to St. Cecilia (died 177) and to Cecilla's husband General James Johnston. Also allusion to Shakespeare's Othello, iv.2.61-3 and Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, ii.4.111.

Associated Names:

Gillray, James, 1756-1815 [Printmaker]
Humphrey, Hannah, active 1774-1817 [Publisher]

Topics:

Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley
Defecation
Harvey, Francis
Johnston, Henrietta Cecilia, Lady, 1727-1817
Johnston, James Lesslie, 1697 or 1698-1789
Monuments & memorials
Putti
Riviere & Son
Skull & crossbones

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings -- England -- London -- 1791
Satires (Visual works) -- England -- 1791

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Prints & Photographs

Rights:

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Call Number:

791.09.19.01

Orbis Record:

7777471

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr07225

Volume/Enumeration:

Digital version

OID:

10732634

PID:

digcoll:551758