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• Author/Creator:Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
  
• Title:"The muse so oft her silver harp has strung ..." [graphic] / the figures drawn by Ibbetson, and the landscape by J. Smith ; etched by Rowlandson.
  
• Publication:[London] : Published according to act of Parliament Feb. 20, 1802 by Ed. Jones, in Lord Steward's Court-Yard, St. James's Place, [20 February 1802]
  
• Physical Description:1 print : etching ; sheet 28.1 x 22 cm
  

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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 8
    
  • Status:No information available 
  • Notes:Mounted on leaf 9 of volume 8 of 14 volumes.
    1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; sheet 23.3 x 19.4 cm.
    Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint and verses.
    
  • Provenance:From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
    

  • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
    Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library
    
    
  • Call Number: 802.02.20.01+
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:C. & J. Goodfriend; April 2013.
    
  •   Digital version
    

   
• Medium:wove paper
  
• Notes:Title from the first line of the four-line poem printed below the image.
  Title continues: "... That not a mountain rears his head unsung. And many an amorous, many a humourous lay, which many a bard had changed many a day."
  Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
  Frontispiece to: Jones, E. Bardic Museum. Musical and poetical relicks of the Welsh Bards, v. 2. London : For the author, 1802.
  
• Summary:An elderly man plays a harp on a hillside surrounded by couples and children. In the distance are mountains and a tower.
  
• Variant and related titles:Descriptive title: Harpist in the mountains, the Welsh bard
  
• Format:Visual Material
• Subjects:Children.
  Couples.
  Harps.
  Mountains.
  Musicians.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley--Ownership.
  Harvey, Francis--Ownership.
  Riviere & Son--Binding.
  
• Genre/Form:Genre prints.
  Frontispieces.
  Etchings--England--London--1802.
  
• Also listed under:Ibbetson, Julius, 1759-1817, artist.
  Smith, John, 1749-1831, artist.
  Jones, Edward, 1752-1824, publisher.