Shakespeare's beautiful idea on the seven ages of man and Shakespeare's seven ages
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of second imprint., Twenty eight lines in three columns of text under image titled Shakespeare's Seven Ages: All the world's a stage ..., Below last line of text additional imprint: Printed for S.W. Fores, Printseller and Publisher, No. 3 Piccad[illy]., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local subject terms: Infants -- Children -- Youth -- Aging -- Interiors: library -- Symbols: mask of Comedy -- Mask of Tragedy -- Justice holding scales.
Publisher:
Published as the act directs, by J.C. Gear, music and drawing master, Gosport
Age of man, display'd in ten different stages of life
Description:
Caption title on three lines., Verse - "In prime of years, when I was young,"., In three columns separated by columns of type ornaments; the title and three woodcuts span the first two columns; the sequence of woodcuts is: Father Time; a woman riding a donkey, with a baby in a cradle and a lamb in the foreground; Death., Six long dashes above imprint at foot of column three., Mounted on leaf 1. 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 at the Printing-Office in Bow-Church-Yard
Subject (Topic):
Life cycle, Human, Songs, English, Life cycle, Death, and Youth
A print arranged on nine steps showing the stages in life of man and woman, ascending from infancy and descending toward deathbed, with scenes of marriage and dying within roundels above, all appearing above a scene of the Last Judgement, with scenes of christening and burying within roundels immediately above
Description:
Title etched at top of image., Date based entry for C. Dicey in the British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Mounted to 38.5 x 53.5 cm.
Publisher:
Sold by C. Dicey & Co. in Aldermary Church Yard, London
Subject (Topic):
Judgment Day, Aging, End of the world, Life cycle, Middle age, Older people, Rites & ceremonies, and Youth
