[Funeral ticket] [graphic].
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16193863
Description
- Title
- [Funeral ticket] [graphic].
- Creator
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
- Contributor
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
- Published / Created
- [between 1721 and 1736]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Humphrey Drew
- Abstract
-
"Funeral ticket, with a scene of a funeral procession arrived at a church, the pall being drawn back, the parish clerk on the steps at left, a clergyman reading the exordium of the burial service at the head of the procession; the mourners following the coffin, a crowd of onlookers behind, one man clinging to a pillar to see above the others"--British Museum catalogue
- Description
-
Title, printmaker, and imprint from Paulson.
Receipt text below image: You are desired to accompany [the] corps of [blank] from h[his/her] late dwelling in [blank] to [blank] on [blank] next at [blank] of the clock in the evening. Perform'd by Humphrey Drew, undertaker, in King-Street, Westminster.
This impression has been cut, with loss of receipt area.
Ms. note in Steevens's hand on page above print: Original. Note on mount below print: See Nichols's book, 3d edit. P. 419 / Sold at Mr. Gulston's auction for £5.7.6.
On page 46 in volume 1. Plate mounted on sheet: 15.3 x 20.5 cm. - Provenance
- George Steevens bequeathed this collection to William Windham (1750-1810). At Windham's death, the collection was put up for sale on 20 July 1810 and was bought in by Mrs. Windham at 292 guineas; by descent through the Windham family; Sotheby's, 17 February 1919 to Dyson Perrins for £400; Sotheby's sale including Property of the Late C.W. Dyson Perrins, Esq., 11 June 1959, lot 100 purchased by Maggs Bros. for W.S. Lewis for £1300.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 11.4 x 16.5 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Early works to 1800
Tickets
Etchings England London 1721
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century - Material
- etching ;
- Subject (Geographic)
-
Great Britain.
England - Subject (Topic)
-
Funerals
Undertakers and undertaking
Crowds
Funeral processions - Subjects
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Funerals > Great Britain
Undertakers and undertaking > England > Early works to 1800
Crowds
Funeral processions
England > London > 1721
18th century
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 12624751
- Object ID (OID)
- 16193863
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