Love in a coffin [graphic].

Description

Title: Love in a coffin [graphic].
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Published / Created: [30 December 1784]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Decr. 30th, 1784, by J. Trotter
Description: Title from item.
Sheet trimmed on top within the plate mark.
Temporary local subject terms: Male costume: grave clothes -- Mythology: Cupid -- Pyramids -- Tombstones -- Allusion to 'criminal conversation' -- Epitaphs -- Trees: weeping willow -- Coffins: stone sarcophagus -- Ruins in Ireland -- Cherubs -- Scandals -- Figure of Death -- Skulls -- Literature: quotation from Hamlet, v.1.198 -- Charlemont, Mary (Hickman) Caulfeild, Countess of, d. 1807.
Watermark in center of sheet: J Whatman.
Provenance: Old Print Shop ; June 1, 1961 ;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 26 x 36 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
Satires (Visual works) England 1784
Engravings England London 1784
Etchings England London 1784
Material: etching & stipple engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Charlemont, James Caulfeild, Earl of, 1728-1799
Subjects: Charlemont, James Caulfeild, Earl of, 1728-1799 > Caricatures and cartoons
England > 1784
England > London > 1784

Access: Public
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