The funeral procession of Anti Sejanus [graphic].

Description

Title: The funeral procession of Anti Sejanus [graphic].
Published / Created: [13 March 1766]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title from item.
Publication date from advertisement in The public advertiser. See no. 4127 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 4.
Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark.
Three columns of text below image describing the procession: Last night the body of that poor politician Anti-Sejanus was privately interred in the criminal vault in St. Sepulchre's Churchyard ...
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Processions: funeral procession -- Reference to the Rev. James Scott, 1733-1814, pseud. Anti-Sejanus -- Literature: reference to Sejanus by Ben Jonson, 1572-1637 -- Reference to John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, "Jemmy Twitcher" -- Cattle drivers -- Vehicle: horse cart -- Reference to Sir John Fielding -- Buildings: gate with clock.
Watermark: Vryheyt on the right, with countermark L V G on the left.
Mounted to 30 x 48 cm.
Provenance: Alfred Bowditch Collection ; Dec. 1966 ; Bowditch's note on mounting sheet: Truman Sale 1906.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 28 x 40 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1766
Etchings England London 1766
Watermarks (Paper) L V G.
Watermarks (Paper) Vryheyt
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > 1766
England > London > 1766
L V G.
Vryheyt

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