Volume 1, page 49. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Hungerfords Chapel
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Date supplied by cataloger., An inscription from the depicted painting is reproduced in ink below title., and Mounted on page 49 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
In a churchyard four young men, one of whom is a boot-black, play a game of hustle-cap on a tomb; a beadle raises his cane to strike them; in the foreground skulls and bones and an open grave; beyond, the congregation enters the church
Description:
Title etched below image., Date suggested by Isaac., Sheet trimmed to plate mark at top edge., Plate numbered "30" in upper right corner., After a Hogarth print entitled "The idle 'prentice at play in the church yard, during divine service," from his series "Industry and idleness.", and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Publisher:
Printed and published by W. Davison, Alnwick
Subject (Topic):
Gambling, Officials, Shoe shiners, Skulls, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, and Young adults
Title from text inscribed on the depicted monument., Unsigned; artist unidentified. This is possibly the original drawing for an engraved plate issued in later editions of Hervey's Meditations among the tombs., Date of production based on publication date of the book in which the drawing is found., Beneath title is inscribed four lines of verse, followed by a description of the circumstances of Anne Stonhouse's death: She died a few days after [the] birth of her 4th child, Dec. 1st 1747 in [the] 25th year of her age., and Bound in opposite page 86 in James Hervey's copy of the first edition of his Meditations among the tombs.
"Cupid mourning, standing in front of the tomb of Queen Mary, hands crossed over his breast, looking down to left at a banderolle inscribed 'Pastora is no more' lying on the edge of the dais on which the casket stands, wearing an empty quiver and cloak, his broken bow and arrows cast on the ground nearby; the tomb decorated with swag and the Garter star; mountains in the background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image. and Approximate date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue.
Publisher:
John Smith
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Mary II, Queen of England, 1662-1694 and Cupid (Roman deity),
Title engraved below image., Date of printing based on watermark., Bound in a volume of prints [English cathedrals and monuments]; leaf numbered '9' in mss. Label on front cover: Prints. For further information consult library staff., and Watermark on paper '1794'.
Publisher:
Publish'd according to act of Parliament August 1st 1780 by Ralph Bigland, Garter principal King of Arms
Subject (Geographic):
England. and Gloucestershire (England)
Subject (Topic):
Tombs & sepulchral monuments and Buildings, structures, etc
Title engraved below image., With a separately titled plate on same sheet: Miserden. [London?] : [publisher not identified], [178-?], and Bound in a volume of prints [English cathedrals and monuments]; leaf numbered '16' in mss. Label on front cover: Prints. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Gloucestershire (England) and England.
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, structures, etc, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, and Effigies
Title from item., From: Bernard Picart, Histoire générale des ceremonies, moeurs & coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde, Paris: Rollins fils, 1741., Place of publication, publisher, and date from containing volume., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Rollins fils
Subject (Name):
Paris, François de, 1690-1727.
Subject (Topic):
Hysteria, Religious aspects, Convulsions, Miracles, Religious groups, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, Religious meetings, and Cemeteries
Plate [36] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Illustration to Bowyer's edition of Hume's History of England; Louis VII in profile to left, kneeling in prayer Canterbury Cathedral, before the tomb of St Thomas Becket, wearing an ermine trimmed cloak decorated with fleurs-de-lis, his arms on a rest covered with a velvet cloth, his crown on the ground beside him."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Lewis the Seventh, King of France, before Becket's tomb and Louis the Seventh, King of France, before Becket's tomb
Description:
Title from text below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Plate [36] in a volume bound to 50 cm.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Louis VII, King of France, approximately 1120-1180, and Thomas, à Becket, Saint, 1118?-1170
In a graveyard with tombstones and sarcophagi, a headless ghost in a monk's robes (crucifix and rosary hanging round his neck) carries his head in his left arm as he walks left toward a sarcophagus inscribed "This monument was erected by Simon Lord Fraser of Lovat &c. &c."
Description:
Title etched below image., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Lettered below the title, six lines of verse in three sections: "Disguis'd thro' Life, a Layman at [the] Block, My headless Trunk resumes [the] Monkish Frock Doom'd for my Crimes in Pilgrimage to roam. With weary steps I seek my Native Home, Where Vanity inscribes my Father's Tomb, But Justice now denies my Carcase Room.", and Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Publisher:
Publish'd May 1st 1788, by Malton & Co. No. 132 Pall Mall
publish'd according to act of Parliament, June 15th 1747 [i.e. not before 1794?]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.2 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
In a graveyard with tombstones and sarcophagi, a headless ghost in a monk's robes (crucifix and rosary hanging round his neck) carries his head in his left arm as he walks left toward a sarcophagus inscribed "This monument was erected by Simon Lord Fraser of Lovat &c. &c."; the lefy side is also inscribed "To the memory ofThomas Lord Fraser of Lovat."
Description:
Title etched below image., Re-issue after plate cut down, removing Molteno's publication address?, Lettered below the title, six lines of verse in three sections: Disguis'd thro' life, a layman at [the] block, My headless trunk resumes [the] monkish frock. Doom'd for my crimes in pilgrimage to roam. With weary steps I seek my native home, Where vanity inscribes my Father's tomb, But Justice now denies my carcase room., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed), p. 306., Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Published by R. Faulder, New Bond Street; and J. Egerton, 1794, vol. 1, opposite p. 147., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Spurious. Not in Mr. Nichols's book., and On page 179 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed to: 23.6 x 33.6 cm.
