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Published / Created:: [ca. 1815]
Call Number:: Drawings Un58 no. 93 Box D166
Image Count:: 2
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A coffin is carried down the stairs of a gothic church by a procession of monks, lit by the light of the full moon and the flames of the torches that some of the monks carry. They walk toward an open crypt in the foreground. The light from the crypt illuminates the monument on the wall opposite (a knight in armor) as well as two monks kneeling at the opening of the crypt and a third monk holding a thurible. A man with a red cloak stands in the shadows on the left, looking down at the scene at the crypt. The image is intended to be backlit. The light sources in the image -- the moon, the glow shining out of the gothic crypt, and the torch-bearing friars -- are enhanced when the image is held up to a light
Description:: Title and approximate date of production from dealer's description., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Drawn in the style of the painter and etcher Franz Joseph Manskirch (1768-1840), who worked in London between 1793 and 1819., and On paper watermarked "J. Whatman Turkey Mill".
Subject (Topic):: Churches, Funeral processions, Incense, Monks, Moonlight, Pointed arches, and Torches
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [A nocturnal monastic funeral procession in a medieval chapel] [art original].

Published / Created:: [1817]
Call Number:: File 56 C47 817Fu
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: text and still image
Description:: Title from first line of text, left column of engraved text., All engraved., A memorial to Princess Charlotte of Wales, the overall design being an image of her tomb, including a portrait of the princess and a depiction of her funeral procession directly below. Engraved text within the columns of the tomb provide the details of the procession along with Charlotte's biography. The central body of the tomb includes verse in memory of the tragically deceased princess: Thy hand, mysterious providence! Hath snatched the hope of millions hence. She, she is gone, whom joy and truth, And all the loveliness of youth ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817
Subject (Topic):: Death and burial, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, and Funeral processions
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Funeral procession of Princess Charlotte of Wales].

Creator:: Ireland, Jane, active 1792-1793, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1794]
Call Number:: Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:: 1
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
Description:: Title from original print as described in 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., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., llustration for: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London, 1794., Ms. note in Steevens's hand on page above print: Copy. Note at top of print: From S. Ireland's Hogarth illustrated,, and On page 46 in volume 1.
Publisher:: J. Ireland
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain. and England
Subject (Topic):: Funerals, Undertakers and undertaking, Crowds, and Funeral processions
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Funeral ticket] [graphic]

Creator:: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, printmaker
Published / Created:: [between 1721 and 1736]
Call Number:: Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:: 1
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., and On page 46 in volume 1. Plate mounted on sheet: 15.3 x 20.5 cm.
Publisher:: Humphrey Drew
Subject (Geographic):: Great Britain. and England
Subject (Topic):: Funerals, Undertakers and undertaking, Crowds, and Funeral processions
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Funeral ticket] [graphic].