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Inscribed
To the Memory of Mary Hope who died / at Brookhall in the County of Northampton, / on the 25th of June 1767 Aged 25, & whose / Remains unnotic'd lie in the Neighbouring / Church at Norton, this Stone an unavail- / ing Tribute of Affection, is by her Hus- / band erected and inscribed. / She was the only Daughter of Eliah / Breton of Forty hall, Middlesex, Esqr. and / was married to Iohn Hope of London mercht. / to whom she left three infant Sons: Charles, / Iohn, and William. / Tho' low in earth, her beauteous Form decay's / My faithful Wife, my lov'd Maria's laid, / In sad remembrance the Afflicted raise / No pompous Tomb, inscrib'd with venal praise; / To Statesmen, Warriors, and to Kings belong / The trophied Sculpture and the Poets Song; / And these the Proud expiring; often claim: / Their Wealth bequeathing; to record their Name; / But humble Virtue, stealing to the Dust, / Heeds not our Lays or monumental Bust. / To name her Virtues ill befits my grief; / What was my bliss can now give no relief; / A husband mourns; the rest let friendship tell; / Fame! spread that Worth; - a husband knew too well.
Signed and dated
Medium and dimensions
Pen and wash on laid paper (411 x 636)
Hand
Adam office hand
Literature
For a full list of literature references see scheme notes.
Level
Drawing
Digitisation of the Drawings Collection has been made possible through the generosity of the Leon Levy Foundation
Sir John Soane's collection includes some 30,000 architectural,
design and topographical drawings which is a very important resource for
scholars worldwide. His was the first architect’s collection to attempt to
preserve the best in design for the architectural profession in the future, and
it did so by assembling as exemplars surviving drawings by great Renaissance
masters and by the leading architects in Britain in the 17th and 18th centuries
and his near contemporaries such as Sir William Chambers, Robert Adam and
George Dance the Younger. These drawings sit side by side with 9,000 drawings
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work as a student, his time in Italy and the drawings produced in the course of
his architectural practice from 1780 until the 1830s.
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