"The Diverting History Of John Gilpin" COWPER, WM. Seashells Art Sz: 31 3/8"H x

Art Sz: 31 3/8"H x 30"W

from 1840 until it closed in 1972

HG often saw Helen Gurley Brown (One time Editor of Cosmopolitan Magazine

is the artist's first retrospective monograph

"The Diverting History Of John Gilpin" COWPER, WM. Seashells Art Sz: 31 3/8"H xCOWPER, WM. [31] pp. Frederick Warne And Co. Ltd. 9 1 4" x 8 1 4" w drawings by R. Caldecott The Diverting History of John Gilpin Shewing how he went Farther than he intended, and came safe Home again is a comic ballad by William Cowper written in 1782. The ballad concerns a draper called John Gilpin who rides a runaway horse. Cowper heard the story from Lady Anna Austen at a time of severe depression, and it cheered him up so much that he put it into