Minerva Press broadside detailing the unfortunate end of Louis XVI on the guillotine, January 21, 1793 in Paris. The broadside includes a woodcut illustration of a man lying face down waiting for the blade of the guillotine to drop; the decree of the French National Convention authorizing the execution of "Louis Capet;" descriptions of his execution and of the guillotine--"the modern beheading machine"--and a few anecdotes indicating "that for some time [the king] had been expecting his fate."
Description:
One of several variants; in this edition, the text of the second column begins with the words: "middle of the square, directly facing the gate of the garden of the Tuileries..." See also English short title catalogue, nos. T194096 and T039027., Caption title., Text printed in two columns; text and illustration within double-ruled black border., "Price three-pence.", "Where may be had an exact and authenticated copy of his will, price one-penny"--Lower margin., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed at the Minerva Office, for William Lane, Leadenhall-Street, and sold wholesale at one guinea per hundred and And retail by every bookseller, stationer, &c. in England, Scotland and Ireland
Subject (Geographic):
France and France.
Subject (Name):
Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793 and Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793.
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Politics and government, Foreign public opinion, British, and Public opinion
Title from caption below image., Printmaker and publication from volume., and Plate from: Historical and literary curiosities: consisting of fac-similes of original documents ... / selected and engraved by Charles John Smith. London: Henry G. Bohn ..., 1840.
A drawing of the monument to Mrs. Clive int he garden of Mr. Berry in Twickenham, set in a grove. On the base is Horace Walpole's five-line epitaph
Alternative Title:
Horace Walpole's memorial to Kitty Clive
Description:
Title written below image in Thomas Kirgate's hand., Questionable attribution to Joseph Farington., and With Horace Walpole's epitaph engraved on the base: "Ye smiles & jests still hover round! This is Mirth's consecrated ground: ..." written after her visit to Strawberry Hill in 1774. (See Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence, v. 2 , p. 374-5.)
Subject (Geographic):
Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name):
Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Memorials, Monuments & memorials, and Buildings, structures, etc
Caption title., With a woodcut portrait of Queen Caroline above two columns of text, within a mourning border., First line: In what rapid succession has death been making its inroads upon the Royal Family of England! ..., and Laid on to cream card. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed by P. White, 25, New-street, Bishopsgate, for the Religious Tract Society, and sold by J. Davis, at their Depository, 56, Paternoster-row; and J. Nisbet, 15, Castle-street, Oxford-street
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821 and Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821,
Engraved card printed within black mourning border, illustrated above title with an image of Prince Leopold leaning mournfully over his wife Princess Charlotte's tomb, which is adorned with her portrait and topped with an urn. Sixteen lines of verse are engraved at the bottom
Description:
Title from item., All engraved., First line of verse beneath title: Weep, England, weep! They pride is gone ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
T. Crabb
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817 and Léopold I, King of the Belgians, 1790-1865,
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, and Grief
Engraved card printed within black mourning border, illustrated above title with an image of Prince Leopold and Britannia in front of Princess Charlotte's tomb adorned with her portrait and topped with an urn. Six numbered stanzas of a hymn and two staves of music are engraved at the bottom
Description:
Title from item., All engraved., First lines of "The funeral hymn, being part of the burial service paraphrased": 1. How short, how narrow is the span, how few the years allow'd to man! ..., "The music selected and alter'd by E.W. Smith, of St. Georges Chapel, Windsor"., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. Crabb, Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817 and Léopold I, King of the Belgians, 1790-1865,
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Britannia (Symbolic character), Tombs & sepulchral monuments, Grief, and Musical notation
The head of Louis XVI lies on the platform at the base of a guillotine, his hands tied behind his back, blood pouring from the blade and his head. The swirls of blood ascend and swirl around the guillotine like clouds of smoke and etched in this cloud are a long speech pleading for justice from the British nation and beginning: Wither, O wither shall my blood ascend for Justice? My throne is seized on by my murderers ...
Description:
Title etched below image., Two lines of text above image: This exact representation of that instrument of French refinement in assassination, the guillotine, is submited to the "Gentlemen of the Phalanx" & other well-wishers to the King & Constitution of Great Britain, by their devoted servants at command, The Assassins of the King of France., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark at top and bottom.
Publisher:
Pubd. Feby. 16th, 1793, by H. Humphrey, No. 18 Old Bond Street
Subject (Geographic):
France and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Decapitations, Executions, Guillotines (Punishment), History, and Foreign relations
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on top and bottom., and West's painting after which this print was engraved, was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1771.
Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
[30 October 1777]
Call Number:
777.10.30.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Slumped in an oversized armchair, wearing nightcap and muffler, the wan libertine Earl listens to a robed, bewigged and bespectacled but nearly toothless old clergyman who reads from the 19th chapter of Genesis. At the head of the bed to the right is displayed a coat of arms, on which the coronet of an earl is visible
Description:
Title etched below image. and Printmaker questionably identified as William Humphrey; design has been attributed to Gillray. See British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Pubd. 30th Octr. 1777 by W. Humphrey
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
Rochester, John Wilmot, Earl of, 1647-1680
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Clergy, Clothing & dress, Furniture, Coats of arms, and Death
