- Title:
- 'Emblem of that which shall awake the dead' (Page 19)
- Part Of:
- Date:
- ca. 1797
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching, line engraving, and letterpress, with hand coloring in watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Spine: 16 3/4 inches (42.5 cm), Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm), Plate: 16 1/8 x 12 3/4 inches (41 x 32.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered inside image: "19 | NIGHT THE SECOND. | 'WHEN the cock crew, he wept'--smote by that eye | Which looks on me, on all; that power, who bids | This midnight centinel, with clarion shrill, | *Emblem of that which shall awake the dead, | Rouse souls from slumber into thoughts of heaven: | Shall I too weep? where then is fortitude? | And, fortitude abandon'd, where is man? | I know the terms on which he sees the light; | He that is born, is listed; life is war, | Eternal war with woe: who bears it best, | Deserves it least--on other themes I'll dwell. | LORENZO! let me turn my thoughts on thee, | And thine, on themes may profit; profit there, | Where most thy need--themes, too, the genuine growth | Of dear PHILANDER'S dust: he, thus, though dead, | May still befriend.--What themes? time's wondrous price, | Death, friendship, and PHILANDER'S final scene."; lower left: "inv. & sc | WB"; lower left: "Pubd. June 27, 1796, by R. Edwards, No. 142 New Bond Street."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1978.43.1389
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- dead | death | literary theme | men | nudes | shrouds | skeletons | text | trumpets
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:2313
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The Romantic Print in the Age of Revolutions: Hero, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History (Yale Center for British Art, 2003-01-23 - 2003-06-01) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition] [Exhibition Description]