"Portrait after Lawrence (Garlick 797); seated almost whole-length to left, looking to front, holding a snuff-box in his left hand at his lap and his right hand resting on papers on a table at left, curtain behind and landscape through window at left"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title, imprint, printmaker, and artist from published, lettered state in the British Museum: "Painted by Sir Thos. Lawrence R.A. Principal Painter in Ordinary to his Majesty. Engraved by C. Turner, Warren Street, Fitzroy Square. London, Published July 4, 1815 by C. Turner, 50, Warren Street, Fitzroy Square." See British Museum registration no.: 1891,0414.420. and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
"Portrait of Lady Juliana St. Aubyn; nearly three-quarter length, sitting, directed to the left, facing and looking to the right, hair tied up with a thick black band, right hand by her shoulder, left hand at her side; proof before letters."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title written in pencil below print by previous owner., Artist and date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.6347., Mounted on leaf numbered 7 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Title devised by cataloger., Date of publication from watermark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: Ruse & Turners 1815.
"A runaway horse dashes over a bank towards the sea. The driver, a stout 'cit', falls backwards, broken reins in his hands. A young woman flings herself out. Death sits beside the road on a mile-stone, '56 Miles from London', holding up his hour-glass at the pair. (In the text the accident is on Shooters Hill.)"--British Museum catalogue
Alternative Title:
Away they go in chaise & one, or to undo or be undone
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue, taken from the heading to the printed page opposite the plate in The English dance of death., Couplet etched below image: Away they go in chaise & one, or to undo or be undone., Attributed to Rowlandson in the British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from top margin and verses from bottom margin. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., Plate from: Combe, W. The English dance of death. London : Published at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts ..., 1815-1816, v. 2, opposite page 158., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as Death.
Publisher:
Pub. Octr. 1 - 1815, at R. Ackermann's, 101 Strand
Subject (Name):
Combe, William, 1742-1823.
Subject (Topic):
Dance of death, Death (Personification), Accidents, Skeletons, Carriages & coaches, Horses, Dogs, Traffic signs & signals, and Hourglasses