Homepage
Home
Advanced search
Showcase
FAQs
Contact
Record
XKWH - Humphreys Bequest - 12th century-20th century
B - Manuscripts arranged into date sequences according to century - 1413-1946
18 - Nineteenth century manuscripts - 19th century
Level
Item
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)
KWH/B/18/373
Title
Note of verse alluding to a memorial sculpture by Chantrey
Extent
1 item
Date
19th century
Description
Commences: 'From kindred looks when robbed of life / How rude the fate we boast / Their chisel is the carving knife / Their bed a bed of toast'
Beneath is illegible name possibly of the subject of the sculpture
[Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey (1781-1841), sculptor and portrait sculptor]
Access Status
Open
Showcase
Some of our most significant collections
Church Mission Society
Records of Mason Science College
Papers of Neville Chamberlain
Oswald Mosley papers (Nicholas Mosley deposit)
Explore showcase