The inn at Edmonton

The inn at Edmonton

Item Information

Title:
The inn at Edmonton
Description:
Information from accompanying cards: Embellished with a fine fore-edge painting of the inn at Edmonton, from which John Gilpin, Cowper’s immortal hero, started his famous ride.
Date:
(c) 1808
Format:
Paintings
Genre:
Watercolors
Fore-edge painting
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Special Collections, Rare Books
Subjects:
Taverns (Inns)
Extent:
1 painting : watercolor on fore edge of book
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Notes:
Title from accompanying cards.
Found on: Latin and Italian poems of Milton tr. into English verse : and a fragment of a commentary on Paradise Lost by the late William Cowper / with a preface by the editor, and notes of various authors
Notes (acquisition):
Gift of Albert H. Wiggin, May 1951.
Notes (date):
Date of painting unknown. Publication date of book: 1808.
Notes (object):
Fore-edge/fanned to the right
Identifier:
07_04_000001A
Call #:
RARE BKS PR3552 .C6 1808x Folio
Barcode:
39999062390669