'In Commemoration of Chatterton' from John Latimer, The Annals of Bristol in the Eighteenth Century, vol. 4 (1893), extra-illustrated by Priscilla Fry. Courtesy of the University of Bristol's Special Collections.
Ticket for commemoration concert of poet Thomas Chatterton: Genius, with child-Chatterton dressed in blue-boys uniform, lighting a flame on altar with the Bristol arms hewn into its side; Redcliffe Church, Bristol, in background; in oval; after N Pocock. 1784
The subscription ticket, designed by Nicolas Pocock, shows the boy-poet 'conducted' by Genius. Two aspects are notable in their fanning of the Chatterton myth flame. First, Chatterton's youth is completely exaggertaed, appearing as a young infant rather than adolescent. Second, with St Mary Redcliffe in the background, and the general medievalisng imagery, it is the Rowley aspects of CHstterton's work that is being emphasises here, rather than his later, satirical pieces.