An illustrated broadside with text describing in detail the ceremonies and events around the funeral and burial of Queen Caroline from Monday 13th August as her body lay in state at Brandenburgh House, through the early afternoon interment in Brunswick on 25th August. The broadside records the argument between Sir George Naylor and Mr. Bailey who had assigned responsibility for the events by the George IV and the Caroline's executor Dr. Lushington. The official route attempted to negate the threat of violence from a mob by steering it away from the city center. However, a mob blocked the cortege's path forcing it to re-route through the city. Chaos erupted and soldiers opened fire killing two men and other injuries. The internment was precided over by J.W. Wolff who said a prayer in German, a translation of which is included in the text of the broadside
Description:
Caption title. and Text in four columns; illustrated with a portrait of Queen Caroline at top, a large woodcut (11 x 20 cm) of the funeral procession below, and a small woodcut of the coffin in the bottom left corner.
Publisher:
Carrall, printer, near Foss Bridge, York
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,
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Funeral processions, and Coffins
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