Three friends going on a visit [graphic].

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Title: Three friends going on a visit [graphic].
Contributor: Newton, Richard, 1777-1798, attributed name.
Published / Created: [ca. 1800?]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Three figures on horseback, riding right to left. Closest to the viewer is large man holding a whip at his side and wearing a hat; next is the figure of Death as a skeleton, wearing a crown and with head turned towards the large man, grinning; and farthest away is a scowling undertaker, holding a whip and with a broad ribbon on his hat
Description: Title etched below image.
Attribution to Richard Newton is suggested in local catalog record.
Approximate date of publication supplied by cataloger.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Reversed version of print published by S.W. Fores in 1796; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1948,0214.393. See also the reduced copy by Charles Williams that was published in 1806 (No. 10665 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8).
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum.
Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Skeleton as Death.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 235 x 329 mm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1800
Etchings England London 1800
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Death (Personification)
Skeletons
Undertakers
Horseback riding
Whips
Crowns
Subjects: Death (Personification)
Skeletons
Undertakers
Horseback riding
Whips
Crowns
England > 1800
England > London > 1800

Access: Public
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