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- Published / Created:
- [1817]
- Call Number:
- File 56 C47 817P
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Description:
- Caption title., A poem, printed within black mourning border, illustrated above title with an image of an urn mounted on a plinth, her life dates engraved on the plinth; behind a weeping willow. Five stanzas of verse in letterpress at the bottom., Illlustration signed: Snowdon, Wigmore Street., First lines of verse: O! look, my sister, yonder our princess lay; How fragrant is her tomb, her very clay! ..., and 'Maria' written in black ink above imprint statement. For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- Published for the Authoress, and sold by T. Gardiner and Son, 20, Princes-Street, Cavendish-Square; N. Hailes, London Museum, Piccadilly; and T. Sizuer, Juvenile Library, 259, Oxford-Street, and 209, Piccadilly
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817
- Subject (Topic):
- Death and burial and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The princess's tomb : a dialogue for the nursery
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- Published / Created:
- [approximately 25 November 1748]
- Call Number:
- 748.11.25.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- 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. and Plate mark: 23 x 27 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748
- Subject (Topic):
- Death and burial, Cherubs, Churches, Coffins, Death, Funeral processions, Sun, Skeletons, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
- Found in:
- 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
- Published / Created:
- [1817]
- Call Number:
- File 56 C47 817Fu
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Description:
- Title from first line of text, left column of engraved text., All engraved., A memorial to Princess Charlotte of Wales, the overall design being an image of her tomb, including a portrait of the princess and a depiction of her funeral procession directly below. Engraved text within the columns of the tomb provide the details of the procession along with Charlotte's biography. The central body of the tomb includes verse in memory of the tragically deceased princess: Thy hand, mysterious providence! Hath snatched the hope of millions hence. She, she is gone, whom joy and truth, And all the loveliness of youth ..., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817
- Subject (Topic):
- Death and burial, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, and Funeral processions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Funeral procession of Princess Charlotte of Wales].