Engraving of Samuel Rogers

Museum number

TEMP E25

Object

Engraving of Samuel Rogers

Description

An engraving of Samuel Rogers, published by James Fraser after Daniel Maclise. This engraving comes from Page 13 of The Maclise Portrait Gallery of Illustrious Literary Characters with Memoirs by William Bates. Samuel Rogers was a poet and contemporaries of Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron. He was also an art collector and had a collection of various objects from Anceint to paintintgs, prints, books and objets d'art. He made most of his money as a banker. He has a large circle of acquaintances and friends which had been made through social breakfasts he held and the literary circles he was in. His main poem was The Pleasures of Memory. He also published his impressions of his interactions with many of the leading men of the day. He was later a trustee of the National Gallery and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He later toured Europe and published his poem Italy (which had engravings by Turner, Stothard and Prout)

Materials

Paper

On display?

No

Further description

Simple name

Lithograph