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Descriptive Information

Title
Elegy, in remembrance of James Lawrence, Esquire : (late commander of the United States' frigate Chesapeake.).
Call Number
E Row 2/GC053/Box 03/Normal GA 2024.04569
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcd504s121p
Publisher
[Massachusetts? : s.n., 1813]
Language
English
Date Created
1813
Format
Book
Extent
1 sheet ([1] p.) : illustrations ; 38 x 27 cm
References
Sinclair Hamilton Collection no. 1869
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography
Ford, W.C. Broadsides, ballads, &c. printed in Massachusetts, 1639-1800, 3081
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Notes
Verse of forty lines; first line: Spirit of sympathy! from Heaven descend.
At head are relief cut of monument with inscription, "Sacred to the memory of the brave Jas. Lawrence Esquire. Obt. June 4, 1813 Æ 31," and two additional stanzas of verse; first line: How sleep the brave, who sink to rest.
Relief cut signed: N.W. Munroe, del. Eng'd on wood, by G. Cobb.
On silk. Text in two columns; printed area measures 35.8 x 29.6 cm.

Discovery Information

Subject
Lawrence, James 1781-1813

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
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