You are desired to attend the funeral of the late Reverend Isaac Watts, D.D. : from Lorimer's-Hall, London-Wall, to the burial-ground in Bunn-Hill-Fields, on Monday, the 5th day of December, l748, at one o'clock in the afternoon
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Lewis Walpole Library > You are desired to attend the funeral of the late Reverend Isaac Watts, D.D. : from Lorimer's-Hall, London-Wall, to the burial-ground in Bunn-Hill-Fields, on Monday, the 5th day of December, l748, at one o'clock in the afternoon
Description
- Title
- You are desired to attend the funeral of the late Reverend Isaac Watts, D.D. : from Lorimer's-Hall, London-Wall, to the burial-ground in Bunn-Hill-Fields, on Monday, the 5th day of December, l748, at one o'clock in the afternoon
- Published / Created
- [approximately 25 November 1748]
- Publication Place
- London? and England London
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Abstract
-
Emblematic funeral ticket for Isaac Watts, Congregational minister, hymn writer, theologian, and logician who died 25 November 1748. In the center is a mausoleum decorated with pillars and scrolls with three small Cherub heads along the top and the lid decorated with two full-figure Cherubs holding torches on either side of an urn at the top of the structure. The center has been left blank to allow for the letterpress printing (used as the title). On the left, standing on a low block, is the allegorical figure of Time, shown as an old, bearded man with wings, scythe, and hourglass. On the right Death stands on a coffin, shown as a skeleton with an arrow in his left and his right hand resting on one of the small heads decorating the base of the mausoleum. Along the base of the mausoleum hangs a cloth with an image of a funeral procession in a graveyard. On the hills in the background are churches and on the right, a ruins overgrown with vines. In the sky centered above the mausoleum is the symbol of the Holy Ghost and above it the Sun and on either edge two Cherub heads
- Description
-
Title from letterpress text in a compartment left blank in an elaborately engraved pictorial sheet.
Plate mark: 23 x 27 cm. - Provenance
- Sold at Forum Auctions, 27 September 2018, lot 199. Purchased through Jarndyce; September 2018.
- Extent
- 1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : 26 x 40 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 748.11.25.01
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Engravings England London 1748
Invitations - Material
- 1 engraving ;
- Resource Type
- text and still image
- Subject (Name)
- Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748
- Subject (Topic)
-
Death and burial
Cherubs
Churches
Coffins
Death
Funeral processions
Sun
Skeletons
Tombs & sepulchral monuments - Subjects
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Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748 > Death and burial
Cherubs
Churches
Coffins
Death
Funeral processions
Sun
Skeletons
Tombs & sepulchral monuments
England > London > 1748
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 13772968
- Object ID (OID)
- 16704469