Or heap the Shrine of Luxury and Pride by John Dawson Watson. Wood-engraving by the Dalziels, 3 1/4 x 3 7/8 inches. 1862. An illustration for Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard." Source: Wilmott, p. 180; The title — the text illustrated — appears only in the list of illustrations on p. xvii.
Note the Hogarthian touches here: a painting labelled "Pegasus in Chains," representing imagination in bondage, the idle lapdog mirroring his master, and the bust of an ancestor that seems to be looking at the rich man, who seems to be accepting a work dedicated to him by a subservient author.
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Bibliography
English Sacred Poetry of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth, and Nineteenth Centuries. "A new edition." Ed. Robert Aris Wilmott. London: Routledge, Warne, & Routledge, 1863.
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