Cowper, William, 1731-1800

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Dates

Existence: 1731-11-26 - 1800-04-25

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William Cowper (1731-1800), English poet and hymn writer

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Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Mason Fitch Cogswell papers

Collection

Call Number: GEN MSS 920

Overview: The papers primarily consist of correspondence received by Mason Fitch Cogswell from family, friends, and professional colleagues. Prominent among the correspondents are Cogswell's brother Samuel Cogswell, his nephew James Lloyd Cogswell of Long Island, New York, his friend Theodore Dwight, the Caribbean planter Charles Joseph Sibert, Vicomte de Cornillon, and deaf education pioneers Laurent Clerc and T. H. Gallaudet. Other colleagues in the papers are the Reverend Ebenezer Fitch, Connecticut...

Dates: 1772-1853, bulk 1790-1830

Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mason Fitch Cogswell papers

Album of watercolors and drawings.

Collection

Call Number: GEN MSS 831

Overview: The collection primarily consists of an album filled with drawings, prints, ephemera, and manuscript poems, letters, dedicatory inscriptions, and notes collected or created by John Charles Denham. The album contains 107 small drawings and sketches in graphite, ink, and watercolor by prominent British artists from the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries such as Richard Parkes Bonington, John Flaxman, Sir Thomas Lawrence, Paul Sandby, J. M. W. Turner, and Benjamin West, as well as...

Dates: 1777-1935 1790-1835, bulk 1790-1835

Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Album of watercolors and drawings.

Letter : Olney, England, to Lady Hesketh, London, 1786 May 15

Part of Collection — Box: 5, Folder: GROUP 92, F-1

Call Number: GEN MSS MISC

Scope and Contents: ALS to his cousin.

Dates: 1786 May 15

Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > General Collection manuscript miscellany > C > COWPER, WILLIAM, 1731-1800

Letter : to Joseph Hill, London, 1778 Oct 20

Part of Collection — Box: 5, Folder: GROUP 92, F-2

Call Number: GEN MSS MISC

Scope and Contents: ALS with address leaf.

Dates: 1778 Oct 20

Found in: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > General Collection manuscript miscellany > C > COWPER, WILLIAM, 1731-1800

William Cowper Esq. Engraved by Cooper from the original painting byt Abbott. Published June 5, 1824, by Henry Colburn & Simpkin & Marshall., 1824 June 5

Item — Box: 2-446

Call Number: MSS 10

Scope and Contents: Portrait of William Cowper.

Dates: 1824 June 5

Found in: Yale Center for British Art, Rare Books and Manuscripts > Extra-illustrated Life of Nollekens

William Cowper, Esq. Engraved by H. Meyer from an original picture by F. Abbot, in the possession of the Revd. John Johnson, LLD. Published June 11, 1816 by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London., 1816 June 11

Item — Box: 1-87