George Housman Thomas
‘O'er the grave where our hero we buried’ (FEP113)
Title:
O'er the grave where our hero we buried
Illustrator:
Engraver:
Source Text:
Charles Wolfe,
'The Burial of Sir John Moore'
1817 in Favourite English Poems (R. Clay & Co., 1862, London: Sampson Low, 1862), 194–96
Size:
89 mm x 114 mm / 3"16 x 4"16
Illustration appears on:
p. 195
Illustration no.:
1
/ 1
DMVI Code:
FEP113
Notes:
Vignette. Appears below 'And we bitterly thought […]'. Author listed as 'the Rev. C. Wolfe'. Illustration title from contents page. This poem was published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, 1 (June, 1817), 277–78. A note to the poem states: 'This little poem appeared in some of the newspapers a few days ago. It is too beautiful not to deserve preservation in a safer repository; and we have accordingly inserted it among our original pieces.'