A scene with a group of mourners in a landscape, a palm tree to the left with a monkey watching and pointing to the drama. A man standing to the right reads from a book; three other figures, another man and a woman with a child on her back weep as they watch two men lower the deceased into the grave. The man on the right says, "How precious pale he look in de face." The other man holding the other end of the stretcher says, "Aye-Aye, him be no Moor."
Description:
Title etched below image., Later state of a plate first published by Gabriel Shire Tregear in 1834, the year in which the Slavery Abolition Act came into force. The original print was one of twenty caricatures with the series title 'Tregear's Black Jokes'. The prints developed the theme of the earlier 'Life in Philadelphia' caricatures (of which Tregear published copies), lampooning the social aspirations of Philadelphia's black population. After Tregear's death, the plates for 'Tregear's Black Jokes' passed to his former shopman Thomas Crump Lewis (1808-81), whose publication line is on this later state. The three mentions of Tregear's name on the plate have either been changed to Lewis's or simply effaced., Dated 1860 by the Library of Congress, but Hickman suggests that the prints were issued before that date., "Catalogue of prints"--Etched in lower right corner., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Publisher:
T.C. Lewis & Co., 96 Cheapside, London
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Death, Funeral rites & ceremonies, Graves, Shovels, Grief, Crying, and Monkeys
Title from text above image., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from language of text., Text in image: XXXIX., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Death, Urine, Analysis, Physicians, Sick persons, Crying, and Grief
King George IV and the Marchioness of Conyngham grieve over the body of a dead giraffe, which had been sent to them by Mehmet Ali, Pasha of Egypt. There is a black mourning border around the image. Left, two Nubians lament. Right, the Lord Chancellor Lord Eldon plays a dirge on the bagpipes (the King called him "Old Bags" because of the purse containing the Privy Seal carried by the Lord Chancellor), while next to him are a pillbox and a prescription signed "Abe[rne]thy", representing unsuccessful medicine for the giraffe
Description:
Title from text below image., Two lines of text beneath title: Suppose and suppose the giraffe it should die, Old Bags he should play over him, we'd sit down and cry., and Matted to: 32.5 x 41.6 cm.
Publisher:
Published by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Abernethy, John, 1764-1831., Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861., Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838., and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830.
Subject (Topic):
Giraffe, Pets, Death, Bagpipes, Medicines, Bagpipe, Medicine, Giraffes, and Grief
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication derived from nationality of printmaker., Sheet trimmed around title., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Hospitals, Interior; Nurses & nursing; Religion & medicine., and In pencil above title: Maryet [or Marget?].
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Medicine, Religious aspects, Catholic Church, Nuns as nurses, Physician and patient, Death, Dead persons, Hospital wards, Physicians, Grief, Nuns, and Altars
Title supplied by curator. Alternate title from item., Date supplied by curator., Below title: Paroles de David pendant la peste que sa vanité avoit attiree sur Israel. 2.des Rois 24., Sheet trimmed., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
chez François Chereau graveur du Roy rue St. Jacques aux deux pilliers d'Or 24
Subject (Geographic):
Epirus (Greece and Albania).
Subject (Name):
David, King of Israel.
Subject (Topic):
Medicine in the Bible, Plague, Fires, Death, Communicable diseases, Dead persons, Dead animals, Prayer, Grief, Angels, Smoke, and Sick persons
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1800]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 30 Box D180
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An elderly woman (left) clasps her head in despair and looks up, away from the body of a tiny dog which a black liveried footman holds on a cushion. Both figures are shown three-quarter length
Description:
Title inscribed in black ink in the artist's hand., Signed by the artist in black ink., Date from Rowlandson etching after this drawing., Drawing numbered in upper right corner in black ink: No. 12., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title from item., Below title: Engraved expressly for the Parlor Annual., The Parlor Annual was published in New York, and this print was in Volume 5, 1845., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Deathbeds, Death, Older people, Priests, Grief, Family members, Prayer, and Medicines
Title and date supplied by curator. and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Kings and rulers, Death and burial, Death, Queens, Kings, Deathbeds, Grief, and Crying
Title supplied by curator., Plate 49 from: Joseph von Baumeister, Die Welt in Bildern, Vienna: Johann Baptist Wallishausser, 1794., Above image: No. 49., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Clergy., and Insert accompanying text.
Publisher:
Verlag ben Johann Baptist Wallishausser, F. F. priv. Buchhändler
Subject (Topic):
Death, Sick persons, Priests, Grief, Skulls, and Crucifixes
Hutin, François, approximately 1685-1758, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 1758]
Call Number:
Print01242
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title supplied by curator., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication derived from printmaker's principal place of residence, although he lived in Rome after 1737., From: The Seven Works of Mercy., See Baudicour, P. Le peintre-graveur français continué, 7., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Inscription has been modified. C replaces F. #7 does not appear.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Burial, Corporal works of mercy, Death, Grief, Dead persons, Death & burial, Torches, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
