- Published / Created:
- [1821]
- Call Number:
- 53 C292 821b Framed, shelved in Object Room A:B
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Alternative Title:
- Monody on her late Majesty Queen Caroline ...
- Description:
- Caption title., Letterpress with woodcut illustration., A illustrated broadside printed on silk., With an image of a woman weeping at a tombstone enscribed with the words "Great Britain's Queen, the injured Caroline., Around the border, following the title: Minister! go hang thyself in justice to mankind, for if after this, you die by the ordinary course of Nature, all honest men will be disgraced by sharing even a common death with you., In verse., First line: Hark! - whence proceeds that awful sound ..., and In a contemporary (or early) gilt wood frame, 19 x 16 cm, hanging hook at top; likely framed for domestic display. For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
- Subject (Topic):
- Death and burial and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > "They have destroyed me" : a monody on her late Majesty Queen Caroline, who departed this life August 7, 1821, aged fifty-three
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- Published / Created:
- 1817.
- Call Number:
- File 56 C47 817
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Abstract:
- 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
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Sacred to the memory of H.R.H. the Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales, the beloved consort of Prince Leopold & only daughter to the Prince Regent of England : who was born Jany. 7, 1796, and died in childbed Novr. 6, 1817, universally lamented
- Published / Created:
- [between 1736 and 1783?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Alternative Title:
- John True and Susan Mead
- Description:
- Verse begins: "Attend, ye lovers, and give an ear"., In four columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the columns are separated by columns of type ornaments., The left woodcut is found in other broadsides with Bow Church Yard and Aldermary Church Yard imprints; the date range is that covering both imprints; see David Stoker, "Another look at the Dicey-Marshall publications: 1736-1806", The Library, ser. 7, v. 15:2 (June 2014), 111-157., Susan’s surname appears in other editions as either Massie or Mease., Mounted on leaf 60. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Topic):
- Couples, Cemeteries, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, Skulls, and Staffs (Sticks)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The unfortunate lovers, or, John True and Susan Mead
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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