"A Country Churchyard" - painted by Samuel Read - from the Exhibition of the Society of British Artists, 1856. Engraving of a painting. 'The following are the lines which the Artist has specially illustrated: [Beneath those rugged elms, that yew-tree's shade, Where heaves the turf in many a mould'ring heap,] Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep'. Lines from "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" by Thomas Gray. From "Illustrated London News", 1856.

---

Size: 3434px × 2520px
Photo credit: © The Print Collector / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: ., /, 19th, 19th-century, art, arts, black, britain, british, burial, bw, cemetery, centre, century, christianity, church, churchyard, collector, colour, concept, country, countryside, death, elegy, engraved, engraving, exhibition, gallery, grave, graves, graveyard, gray, illustrated, iln, jackson, life, literature, location, london, mausoleum, nature, news, newspaper, newspapers, nineteenth, overgrown, peaceful, picture, pictures, plant, plants, poem, poetry, press, print, quiet, read, regionalism, religion, religious, rural, rustic, samuel, thomas, tomb, tombs, tree, trees, white, written, yew