The Answer to the Lyre Sanele kaNtshingana A luxurious black vivella cover

A luxurious black vivella cover

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The Answer to the Lyre Sanele kaNtshingana A luxurious black vivella coverIn 1753 Robert Dodsley published Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray. Sponsored by Horace Walpole, this luxurious quarto was the first major aesthetic expression of the Strawberry Hill circle and a landmark in English book illustration. Kenneth Clarke called it "the most graceful monument to Gothic Rococo." Its witty interplay between illustration and text anticipated Blake, who studied it some thirty years later. Among its poems