Wall Monument for Sir John Turner Dryden, 1st Baronet Dryden of Canons Ashby and 4th Baronet Turner of Ambrosden (1752-1797)
John Charles Felix Rossi, RA (Nottingham 1762 – London 1839)
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
circa 1800
Materials
Marble and slate
Measurements
1500 x 1200 mm
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Canons Ashby, Northamptonshire
NT 494811
Summary
Marble sculpture, Wall Monument for Sir John Turner Dryden, 1st Baronet Dryden of Canons Ashby and 4th Baronet Turner of Ambrosden (1752-1797), by John Charles Felix Rossi, RA (Nottingham 1762 – London 1839), circa 1800. A funerary wall monument depicting lady weeping by an urn. Bearing inscriptions: Near this place in the family Vault, are interred the remains of / JOHN TURNER DRYDEN, the eighth Baronet in the DRYDEN family, / he departed this life at a premature age, after a rapid decline / attended with great sufferings, upon Easter Day / in the year of One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Seven / leaving a Widow and eldest Son to lament increasingly his loss, / and to remember with gratitude his Virtues / As a grateful but inadequate memorial of his tenderness and affection / this Monument to his beloved memory is erected / by his disconsolate Widow and affectionate Son. On some fond breast the parting Soul relies, / Some pious drops the closing Eye requires / Even from the Tomb the voice of nature cries / Even in our Ashes lives their wanted fires'. 'C ROSSI Sculptor / LONDON'
Provenance
Part of the fixtures and fittings of the Property transferred from the Dryden's to the National trust in 1980/81.
Marks and inscriptions
C ROSSI Sculptor / LONDON
Makers and roles
John Charles Felix Rossi, RA (Nottingham 1762 – London 1839), sculptor