Evidence: | Elizabeth Barrett to Hugh Stuart Boyd, 29 January 1830:
'As you like epigrams, & are not likely to have met with one which I met with yesterday in the
Times newspaper, & thought ingenious, I will write it down. The subject is Mr [Martin Archer]
Shee's election to the office of President, in the room of Sir Thomas Lawrence, -- a
circumstance unexpected by any person, -- Mr Shee being better known by his "Rhymes on
Art" than by his practice in art.
'"Pictoribus atque poetis,
Quidlibet audendi" --
'Lo! Painting crowns her sister Poesy --
The world is all astonished! So is [italics]She[end italics].' |
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Century: | 1800-1849 | ||||||||||
Date: | 28 Jan 1830 | ||||||||||
Country: | England | ||||||||||
Time: | n/a | ||||||||||
Place: | n/a | ||||||||||
Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Elizabeth Barrett |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Female |
Date of Birth | 6 Mar 1806 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Writer |
Religion: | Evangelical |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | England |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | |
Title: | Latin epigraph |
Genre: | Classics, Poetry, Arts / architecture |
Form of Text: | Print: Newspaper |
Publication details: | In The Times, 28 January 1830 |
Provenance: | unknown |
Record ID: | 16307 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | n/a | |
Editor: | Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson | |
Title: | The Brownings' Correspondence | |
Place of Publication: | Winfield | |
Date of Publication: | 1984 | |
Vol: | 2 | |
Page: | 234 | |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Citation: | Philip Kelley and Ronald Hudson (ed.), The Brownings' Correspondence (Winfield, 1984), 2, p. 234, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=16307, accessed: 18 April 2024 |
Source eds notes that Barrett slightly misquotes translation of epigram (see p.235 n.5). |
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