Poet's Corner
Photograph
Poet's Corner
From York's Views of Westminster Abbey, London and Neighbourhood
ca. 1870
Albumen silver print
Image (each): 3 1/8 × 3 1/16 in. (8 × 7.7 cm)
Mount: 3 3/8 × 6 13/16 in. (8.5 × 17.3 cm)
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
1981.8767.0003
Inscriptions Printed on mount on recto, LC: LONDON AND NEIGHBOURHOOD.
Printed on mount on recto, RC: BY F. YORK - COPYRIGHT.
Inscribed in ink on applied label on recto, BR: Westminster Abbey. Poets Corner. \ Jonson - Butler - Milton - Spenser - Gray.
Printed and inscribed on applied label on verso, C: YORK'S VIEWS OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY. \ No. 24. \ POET'S CORNER, \ With Monuments to BEN JONSON, MATTHEW PRIOR [strikethrough], JOHN SHADWELL [strikethrough], \ JOHN MILTON, SAMUEL BUTLER, and EDMUND SPENCER. \ (COPYRIGHT.) and Thomas Gray. \ (Walks in London II. 2418cc.)
Inscribed in pencil on verso, RC: JC Smith 25
Printed on mount on recto, RC: BY F. YORK - COPYRIGHT.
Inscribed in ink on applied label on recto, BR: Westminster Abbey. Poets Corner. \ Jonson - Butler - Milton - Spenser - Gray.
Printed and inscribed on applied label on verso, C: YORK'S VIEWS OF WESTMINSTER ABBEY. \ No. 24. \ POET'S CORNER, \ With Monuments to BEN JONSON, MATTHEW PRIOR [strikethrough], JOHN SHADWELL [strikethrough], \ JOHN MILTON, SAMUEL BUTLER, and EDMUND SPENCER. \ (COPYRIGHT.) and Thomas Gray. \ (Walks in London II. 2418cc.)
Inscribed in pencil on verso, RC: JC Smith 25
