A depiction of Caroline of Brunswick's funeral procession, which captures the public mood of Caroline having been both poorly treated and sent to an early grave. Groups of men are shown carrying large banners stating 'The Power of Public Opinion' and 'Friends of Humanity'. The procession is shown in four lines with mourners on foot, on horseback and in carriages. The hearse is on the third line
Description:
Title engraved below image., Probably an early work by James Pollard, possibly done under the direction of his father Robert., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted on board 29.3 x 24 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. by Dean & Munday, Threadneedle Street
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Funeral processions, Hearses, and Mourning clothing & dress
Title etched above image., Date and place of publication 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 (Name):
Lewes, Charles Lee, 1740-1803. and Stevens, George Alexander, 1710-1784.
Subject (Topic):
Theater, Physiognomy, Heads (Anatomy)., Hearses, Coats of arms, and Obelisks
On the right, a lady (Mrs. Catherine Macaulay) with an aquiline profile and wearing a morning gown, sits at a dressing-table; she is dipping a brush into a pot marked 'Rouge', other toilet implements and a looking-glass on the table. Her hair is in a grotesquely caricatured erection, with side curls, intended to ridicule the fashions of the day; on the top of it is a hearse drawn by six horses, decorated with enormous ostrich-feathers. Similar feathers adorn the heads of the horses. On the left behind the lady, a skeleton stands at a rectangular table grasping with both hands an hour-glass whose sands have run into the lower glass out the bottom onto the table. On the table there is also a knife. The base of the skeleton's spine is transfixed by a large arrow. On the wall behind the lady's dressing-table is a portrait bust of a clergyman, in profile to the right (Dr. Wilson).
Alternative Title:
Speedy and effectual preparation for the next world
Description:
Title from item., MD of publisher's name forms a monogram., and Numbered in plate at top: 3, v.2.
Publisher:
Pub May 1, 1777 by MDarly 39 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Macaulay, Catharine, 1731-1791. and Wilson, Thomas, 1703-1784.
Sweet William's dream on his wedding night with the sudden death and burial of those noble lovers
Description:
Verse - "As it fell out upon a day,"., In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by columns of type ornaments., Imprint below last column., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., Mounted on leaf 38. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
Printed and sold in Aldermary Church-yard, Bow-Lane, Loudon [sic]
"Interior view of the hall, in Greenwich Hospital, later the Old Royal Naval College; two groups of figures admiring the painted walls and the grand victory cart."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 3, opposite page 246., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 97., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Funeral carriages -- Prostheses -- Greenwich Hospital -- Lord Nelson's funeral carriage., and 1 print : aquatint and etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 23.8 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 1, 1810, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England) and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, and Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758-1805.
"Interior view of the hall, in Greenwich Hospital, later the Old Royal Naval College; two groups of figures admiring the painted walls and the grand victory cart."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 3, opposite page 246., Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 97., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Funeral carriages -- Prostheses -- Greenwich Hospital -- Lord Nelson's funeral carriage.
Publisher:
Pub. Jan. 1, 1810, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
London (England) and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Royal Hospital for Seamen at Greenwich, and Nelson, Horatio Nelson, Viscount, 1758-1805.
A panoramic view of the procession at head and foot, with each group numbered to a key at the bottom of the woodcut. Mounted in the center is an engraving of Prince Frederick by George Vertue. Further vignettes of the 'Procession from Leicester House' and 'Laying in State' on the left and right edges
Description:
Title engraved at top of plate., Portrait print of Prince Frederick Louis: Fredericus Gerogii Walliae principis F. natu maximus. Ca. Boit pinx. Geo. Vertue sculp. 1725., and With contemporary newspaper clipping: A person at Cheltenham has written over his window- "Undertaker to the Prince of Wales". By investigation it has appeared that his grandather assisted at the late Prince's funeral."
Publisher:
Published by T. Doverson, copper plate printer in Green Arbour Court near Little Old Bailey, according to act of Parliament
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain and Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, 1707-1751
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Funeral rites and ceremonies, Funeral processions, Hearses, Lying in state, Princes, and Mourning clothing & dress
"The patient sits in an armchair in profile to the left, in the centre of a well-furnished room. He wears dressing-gown and nightcap, his arms are folded and he stares fixedly, assailed by ghostly visions which float before his eyes, emerging from smoke-like shadows: a skeleton, Death, poised just above him, raises his arrow to smite. A corpse-like half length figure offers him a pistol and a halter. A spectre with webbed wings holds out a cup. Two staring and decapitated heads glare from the shadows which fill the room. A hand raises a sword; a man with a knife is about to be stung by a serpent. A naked body (half length) falls head downwards. Above these spectres is a man (left) driving a hearse (right to left) at full gallop and looking round at the Hypochondriac. Behind the patient a good-looking woman speaks confidentially to a doctor who meditatively sucks his cane. He is dressed in an old-fashioned manner, wearing a tie-wig. A table covered with medicines stands behind the patient, who seems unconscious of the other two. A money-chest beside him suggests that he is miserly. Two landscapes hang on the wall."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with new imprint statement, of a print published in 1788 by T. Rowlandson. Cf. No. 7449 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 6., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Companion print to: Ague & fever., Nine lines of verse etched below image, on either side of title: The mind distemper'd - say, what potent charm, Can Fancy's spectre - brooding rage disarm? ..., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Demons & Devils -- Skeleton as death., and 1 print : etching and aquatint, hand-colored ; sheet 41.2 x 56.9 cm.
Publisher:
Pubd. Novr. 5, 1792, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Subject (Topic):
Death (Personification), Hypochondria, Depression, Mental, Suicide, Skeletons, Hearses, Demons, Daggers & swords, Handguns, Physicians, Staffs (Sticks), and Medicines
Boitard, Louis-Philippe, active 1733-1770, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1767]
Call Number:
767.00.00.03+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Satire on fashionable life described in a sub-title as "Address'd to the Professors of Driving, Dressing, Ogling, Writing, Playing, Gambling, Racing, Dancing, Duelling, Boxing, Swearing, Humming, Building, &c. &c. &c." with broad space flanked by large buildings leading down to the sea. On the left, "The Academy for the Noble Art of Boxing NB Mufflers provided for delicate Constitutions" through the windows of which a pugilist can be seen addressing a yong nobleman, and two men boxing. Beside this a theatre into which a large crowd enters via a staircase, encouraged by a zany standing on a balcony with three actresses, two actors wearing turbans and another dressed as a soldier; the sign above refers to notorious hoaxes of the earlier part of the century: "Britannia Humm'd Or the Tragedy of the Secret Expedition [presumably the Expedition on Rochefort, 1757], A Mock Tragedy to which is added a Farce call'd The Pregnant Rabit Woman [i.e., Mary Toft], Together with the Adventures of the Bottle Conjurer [see BM Satires 3022, 1868,0808.3875], and Polish Jew [Henry Simons]. As likewise the taking ye Standard at the Battle of Dittingen." The next house is built in a variety of styles; beyond, the sea the sun rises "for the Vigilant". In the foreground fashionable people are shown as described in a key below: 1. "British Nobility disguis'd", three women dressed in French style in an open carriage are bowed to by 2. a foppish young man "Return'd from the Polite Tour"; behind him 3. "Foreign Insolence [is] express'd by the French Valet de Chambre daring to Insult 4. English Bravery in Distress [an old sailor with a wooden leg], reduc'd to ask Alms in his Native Country, after having courageously lost his limbs in Defence of it on board a Privateer & unjustly kept out of his Prize-money"; next is 5. "The Optical Ogle, or polite Curiosity", a young gentleman peering at the women in the carriage through an eye-glass; 6. "An Author", a miserable gentleman with his hands tucked into the breast of his coat who is barked at by two dogs; by contrast, 7. "A Player" reclines comfortably in a sedan chair, a footman walking before him; 8. describes a scene at the door of the house on the right, "The Industrious Tradesman thrust off with Contempt, expecting a just Debt to be paid, to make room for a high Life Gambler [also in a sedan chair], politely usher'd in to receive his Debt of Honour"; behind this group is, 9. "A Feather of the Turf", a man mounted on a high gig drives two horses, and 10. "The Balance of Merit in this happy Climate for useless Exotics, [where] A French Dancing Master obtains 300£ pr. Ann. & a clear Benefit worth near 300£ more, while the Ingenious English Shipwright, tho' Assistant to the Honour Profit & Defence of his Country, by hard Labour barely obtains 40£ pr. Ann."; on the left, 11. a hearse drives into the scene with "The Corps[e] of a Blood, conveying to Interment, who boldly lost his Life in a Duel defending the Reputation of a Prostitute"; 12. is the house beside the sea, "Modern Architecture The Corinthian, Venetian, Gothic & Chinese huddled in one Front,"; 13. an old woman leaning out of an upper window calling to a woman and two men at the door represents "Modern Hospitality in the Character of Old Age, left to take care of Furniture, & answer Duns that the Family is in the Country"; 14. fishing boats at sea are reminders that "One British Buss [fishing boat] of more service to the Community than ten Italian Singers"."--British Museun online catalogue
Description:
Title etched above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of text below image: Explanation. 1 British Nobility disguis'd, 2 Return'd from the Polite Tour, 3 Foreign Insolence express'd by the French valet de chambre daring to insult 4 English Bravery in distress ..., and Mounted to 26 x 35 cm., window mounted to 29 x 41 cm.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill & Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Garrick, David, 1717-1779 and Toft, Mary, 1703-1763
