The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift/Volume 17/Inscription on the Picture of Dr. Swift

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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, Volume 17
(1739)
by Jonathan Swift, edited by Thomas Sheridan, John Nichols, John Boyle, Patrick Delany, John Hawkesworth, Deane Swift, William Bowyer, John Birch, and George Faulkner

Inscription on the Picture of Dr. Swift

Testimonies Respecting the Character of Dr. Swift

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1676964The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, Volume 17
— Inscription on the Picture of Dr. Swift1739Jonathan Swift

A Portrait of Dr. Swift, presented to the University of Oxford by the late John Barber, Esq., is placed in the Picture Gallery there, with this Inscription:

IONATHAN SWIFT,
DECAN. S. PATRIC. DVBL.
EFFIGIEM VIRI MVSIS AMICISSIMI,
INGENIO PRORSVS SIBI PROPRIO CELEBERRIMI,
VT IPSVM SVIS OXONIENSIBVS ALIQVATENVS
REDONARET,
PARIETEM HABERE VOLVIT BODLEIANVM,
A. D. MDCCXXXIX,
IOHANNES BARBER, ARMIGER,
ALDERMANNVS,
NEC ITA PRIDEM PRAETOR LONDINENSIS.

In English:

JONATHAN SWIFT,
DEAN OF ST. PATRICK'S DUBLIN.
This portrait of the Muses' friend,
Of a happy turn of wit, peculiar to himself,
That he might, in some sort be restored to his Oxford Friends,
Was placed in the wall of the Bodleian gallery,
A. D. MDCCXXXIX,
At the desire of John Barber, Esquire,
Alderman, and some time Lord Mayor of London.