Weeping over the tomb of Sir Ralph Abercromby [graphic].

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Title: Weeping over the tomb of Sir Ralph Abercromby [graphic].
Contributor: Laurie & Whittle, publisher.
Published / Created: [13 July 1801]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publsih'd 13th July, 1801 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Abstract: Two soldiers, one in a British uniform with his hands over his eyes and the other in a Scottish kilt with a grief-striken gaze, cross swords over the tomb of Sir Ralph Abercrombie [sic]. On the tomb is written: To the memory of Sir Ralph Abercrombie who was killed at the Siege of Abouker ... 21st March 1801
Description: Title from item.
Number 267 in the Laurie & Whittle series of Drolls.
Other prints in the Laurie & Whittle Drolls series were executed by either Isaac Cruikshank or Richard Newton.
Three lines of descriptive text below design: Two soldiers visiting the tomb of Sir Ralph Abercromby. After standing some time in all the silence and awe of grief, each drew his sabre, and passed it over the stone, then went away without speaking a word. Let any one try to express more energetically the feelings of those brave men.
Plate numbered '267' in lower left corner.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. x.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20 x 24 cm, on sheet 23 x 28 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1801
Stipple engravings England London 1801
Etchings England London 1801
Material: etching and stipple engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Abercromby, Ralph, Sir, 1734-1801
Subject (Topic): Tomb
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Soldiers
British
Scottish
Subjects: Abercromby, Ralph, Sir, 1734-1801 > Tomb
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Soldiers > British
Soldiers > Scottish
England > 1801
England > London > 1801

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