The Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper (3 vols)

Item author: William Hayley
Item date: 1803, 1804
Grant Value: 1,500
Item cost: 2,400
Item cost pre-decimal: NULL
Item date acquired: 2005
Item institution: Cowper and Newton Museum
Town/City: Olney
County: Buckinghamshire

This copy includes a set of interleaved drawings and a silhouette of Cowper by the original owner, John Higgins. He was an admirer of Cowper and a talented amateur artist. Volume 1 also contains six pen and ink drawings, one of The Lodge at Weston Underwood and five views of the Old Hall at Weston.

Item Provenance
John Higgins; Charles Longuet Higgins of Turvey Abbey.
The Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper (3 vols). FNL grant 2005. Image courtesy of the Cowper and Newton Museum.
The Life and Posthumous Writings of William Cowper (3 vols). FNL grant 2005. Image courtesy of the Cowper and Newton Museum.
Silhouette of William Cowper, 1791. Image courtesy of the Cowper and Newton Museum.
Silhouette of William Cowper, 1791. Image courtesy of the Cowper and Newton Museum.