A funeral procession with the coffin on the shoulders of the pallbearers and mourners following behind as they proceed up the steps of a church
Alternative Title:
You are desired to accompany ye corps ...
Description:
Title from text below image. and Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Publisherd by R. Faulder, New Bond Street, and J. Egerton, Whitehall, 1794, vol. 1, opposite p. 10.
An invitation to accompany the Society of Painters at St Lukes Feast on Thursday 24 November, 1687 in Painter Stayner's Hall; with a cartouche illustrated with an allegory of the arts with painting in the center, with winged Fame holding a laurel crown In the top corners are emblems of painting and architecture and on the bottom, drawing (disegno) and sculpture as a putto
Alternative Title:
Sr., you are desired to accompany the Society of Painters ... and Sir, you are desired to accompany the Society of Painters ...
Description:
Title from item., Artist from manuscript annotation on earlier state in the British Museum., Later state of the plate, with alterations to allow the invitation to be used for a variety of events; portions of the engraved text have been removed to create spaces for manuscript additions. For an earlier state with engraved text specific to a St. Luke's Feast on 24 November 1687, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1977,U.1223., Date from British Museum online catalogue., and Mounted on board to: 39 x 30 cm. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Worshipful Company of Painters.
Subject (Topic):
Allegories, Artists' materials, Angels, Artists, and Putti
Emblematic funeral ticket for Isaac Watts, Congregational minister, hymn writer, theologian, and logician who died 25 November 1748. In the center is a mausoleum decorated with pillars and scrolls with three small Cherub heads along the top and the lid decorated with two full-figure Cherubs holding torches on either side of an urn at the top of the structure. The center has been left blank to allow for the letterpress printing (used as the title). On the left, standing on a low block, is the allegorical figure of Time, shown as an old, bearded man with wings, scythe, and hourglass. On the right Death stands on a coffin, shown as a skeleton with an arrow in his left and his right hand resting on one of the small heads decorating the base of the mausoleum. Along the base of the mausoleum hangs a cloth with an image of a funeral procession in a graveyard. On the hills in the background are churches and on the right, a ruins overgrown with vines. In the sky centered above the mausoleum is the symbol of the Holy Ghost and above it the Sun and on either edge two Cherub heads
Description:
Title from letterpress text in a compartment left blank in an elaborately engraved pictorial sheet. and Plate mark: 23 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Cherubs, Churches, Coffins, Death, Funeral processions, Sun, Skeletons, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Title from item., Date based on contemporary annotation "9" in brown ink causing year on invitation to read "1759"., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., On leaf 4 of an album of trade cards and invitations., and Contemporary annotations in brown ink fill the blanks.
Title from item., Date from contemporary annotation in lower right corner: JL [monogram] 1758., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., On leaf 162 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates., and Contemporary manuscript annotations in brown ink fill the blanks on recto; "To Mr. Legg, Coffee Mill, St. James's Market" written in brown ink on verso.
Collection of mostly English engraved trade cards for a wide variety of London businesses, especially those advertising goods and services relating to household furnishings, men and women's attire and accessories such as gloves, boots, and swords, mercers and haberdashery being the most numerous. In addition there are cards for: cabinet makers, engravers and jewelers, clockmakers, tea shops, grocers, wine suppliers, exotic oil suppliers, apothecaries, hair styling, an auctioneer, and an undertaker. Also included are several invitations to private events such as a birthday party and a lodge meeting. Also included is one advertisement for an Edinburgh pewter shop and one for a French supplier of maps
An album of engraved tickets, invitations, bookplates, and other designs, some in mulitple impressions and states, mostly black and white, with some in sepia ink and colored inks. Mostly by Bartolozzi and his pupils. Other artists and printmakers include: I.C.B., G.B. Cipriani, Edward Burney, E. Edwards, Smirk, L. Legoux, H. Bunbury, W. Hamilton, Robert Cooper, Topham, Angelica Kaufman, Anthony Pasquin [pseudo. of John Williams], M. Vdr. Gucht, A. Van Assen. Most engravings are untitled and undated; the dated tickets fall between 1776-1796 A few plates with printers and publishers named: W. Hinton, G. Graglia, Mr. Sandby, J. Sewell. Occasional contemporary annotations, including the stamped initials "M. R."
