Miravan / Valentine Green / After Joseph Wright of Derby

About this Item

Accession Number: 1995/1.82
Title: Miravan
Artist: Valentine Green
Artist Nationality: British
Artist Life Dates: 1739-1813
Medium and Support: mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, off-white laid paper
Object Creation Date: 1772
Credit Line: Museum Purchase
Inscription: Verso, inscribed in graphite, l.c.: "Miravan,/A young Nobleman of Ingria breaking open the/Tomb of his Ancestors, in search of Wealth, incited by/the equivocal Inscription, "In this Tomb is a Treasure greater than/Croesus possessed." found on entering is the following, "There dwells Repose,/Sacrilegious Wretch! Searchest thou for gold among the Dead? Go, Son of/Avarice! Thou canst not enjoy repose""; l.l.: "Jos. Wright. Pinx./of Derby"; l.r.: "Val. Green, sculp." Watermark: none visible.
Dimensions: 45.8 cm x 35.5 cm (18 1/16 in. x 14 in.)
Century: 18th century
Primary Keywords: death; skeletons; torch
Secondary Keywords: animal material; animal material by form or function; descriptors; how we live; materials; materials by origin; objects; rites of passage; skeleton and skeleton components; tools
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Collection: University of Michigan Museum of Art
Image Size: 985 x 1384
File Size: 83 KB
Record: 1995/1.82
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1995-sl-1.82/1995_1.82.jpg

In public portfolios: Death and dying (500); ECSG Eighteenth-Century Studies Group (114); Grief and mourning rituals (178); Heavens, hells, and afterlives (132)

Manifest: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/api/manifest/musart:1995-SL-1.82:1995_1.82.JPG

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Full citation: "Miravan; Valentine Green; After Joseph Wright of Derby." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1995-sl-1.82/1995_1.82.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 18, 2024.