An emblem of a modern marriage [graphic]

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Title: An emblem of a modern marriage [graphic]
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Hartley, Miss, attributed name.
Published / Created: publish'd according to act of Parliament June 15, 1775.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: A couple stand side by side before a rectangular tomb. The male figure is a skeleton wearing a feathered hat, a coat, and a sword; the lady wears a cloak. The tomb is decorated with the skull and crossbones and inscribed with the words "Requiescas in pace'. They stand on a road which leads to a Palladian portico, decorated with a baron's coronet. Above the couple a cupid hides his face in his hands as he turns away
Description: Title etched above image.
Attributed to Gillray in Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Also attributed to "Miss Hartley, daughter of Dr. Hartley" by Horace Walpole in his Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Inscribed below image in two rows, a quote from Lord Hervey's Reply to Hammond's Verses to Miss Dashwood: ... no smiles for us the God head wears! His torch inverted & his face in tears!
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
1 print : etching with stipple, on laid paper ; sheet 234 x 204 mm.
Provenance: Suckling; May 1956;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 22.5 x 19.6 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1775
Engravings England London 1775
Etchings England London 1775
Material: etching with stipple ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Cupids
Marriage
Skeletons
Skull & crossbones
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Subjects: Cupids
Marriage
Skeletons
Skull & crossbones
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
England > 1775
England > London > 1775

Access: Public
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