Portraits of Thomas Gray

Sketch by William Mason (1724-1797) - from Thomas Gray, poet (1716-1771), ed. by Rev. C. E. Harris. Slough: Maple Press, 1971

Bust in terra cotta by John Bacon (1740-1799) - formerly in Gray's possession, now in the National Portrait Gallery, London

From an engraving after a painting by Benjamin Wilson (1721-1788)

From an engraving after the portrait by John Giles Eccardt (d. 1779) - from the edition of Gray's poems by Edmund Gosse, vol. ii.

Medaillon from the Gray monument by John Bacon the Elder (1740-1799), erected by William Mason (1724-1797) - at Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey

Picture by H. Adcock sc. - used as a frontispiece in several 19th-century editions of Gray's works

From a painting attributed to Jonathan Richardson the Elder (1667-1745), but possibly by Arthur Pond (1701-1758) - in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The painting appears to depict Gray as a young student at Eton (c. 1728-33)

Sitter in 1747 holding the MS of the Eton Ode, painted at the request of Horace Walpole - from a painting by John Giles Eccardt (d. 1779), originally in Walpole's Strawberry Hill home, now in the National Portrait Gallery, London

A silhouette (or 'shade') by Francis Mapletoft - at Pembroke College, Cambridge

From a painting by Benjamin Wilson (1721-1788) - Courtauld Institute of Art

From a pencil drawing apparently by Francis Mapletoft - at Pembroke College, Cambridge

From an engraving after a drawing by L. F. Burney - from the 2nd and following editions of Gray's Works edited by William Mason

From a painting by Benjamin Wilson (1721-1788) - in the possession of Mr John R. Murray

Silhouette of Gray, seated (1762), cut by Mrs. Wray, wife of the antiquary Daniel Wray (1701-1783) - Courtauld Institute of Art

Bust in white marble by William Behnes (1794-1864) - provided by The Provost and Fellows of Eton College, located in Upper School of Eton College

Roundel (14 1/2 inches in diameter), possibly by John Deare (1759-1798) - provided by The Provost and Fellows of Eton College, located in Eton College Library