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1. Blackberrying [graphic]
- Creator:
- Hunt, Charles, active 1825-1857, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [before 1860]
- Call Number:
- 860.00.00.02
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A scene with a group of mourners in a landscape, a palm tree to the left with a monkey watching and pointing to the drama. A man standing to the right reads from a book; three other figures, another man and a woman with a child on her back weep as they watch two men lower the deceased into the grave. The man on the right says, "How precious pale he look in de face." The other man holding the other end of the stretcher says, "Aye-Aye, him be no Moor."
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Later state of a plate first published by Gabriel Shire Tregear in 1834, the year in which the Slavery Abolition Act came into force. The original print was one of twenty caricatures with the series title 'Tregear's Black Jokes'. The prints developed the theme of the earlier 'Life in Philadelphia' caricatures (of which Tregear published copies), lampooning the social aspirations of Philadelphia's black population. After Tregear's death, the plates for 'Tregear's Black Jokes' passed to his former shopman Thomas Crump Lewis (1808-81), whose publication line is on this later state. The three mentions of Tregear's name on the plate have either been changed to Lewis's or simply effaced., Dated 1860 by the Library of Congress, but Hickman suggests that the prints were issued before that date., "Catalogue of prints"--Etched in lower right corner., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
- Publisher:
- T.C. Lewis & Co., 96 Cheapside, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Black people, Death, Funeral rites & ceremonies, Graves, Shovels, Grief, Crying, and Monkeys
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Blackberrying [graphic]
2. Charlotte at the grave of Werter [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [1 January 1786?]
- Call Number:
- Auchincloss Rowlandson v. 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Satire on the taste for Goethe; a woman kneels wailing, hands clasped, over a grave, beneath a wall topped with a skull and cross-bones; in the square behind, a woman hawks sheets with 'The Best Dying Speech of Werter'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Charlotte at the grave of Werther
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Last digit of publication date effaced; year of publication from unverified data in local card catalog record., British Museum online catalogue suggests 1788 as the year of publication. See registration no.: 1948,0214.592., Sheet partially trimmed within plate mark., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., 1 print : etching on laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 23.2 x 23.6 cm., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges., and Mounted on leaf 34 of volume 2 of 14 volumes.
- Publisher:
- Pubd. Jany. 1, 178[...?] by S.W. Fores at the Caracature Warehouse No.3 Piccadilly
- Subject (Name):
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.
- Subject (Topic):
- Graves
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Charlotte at the grave of Werter [graphic].
3. S. Memoria Paulia Pompilia Benedicta [graphic]
- Creator:
- Whitby, Mary Anne Theresa, 1783-1850, printmaker, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1829]
- Call Number:
- 829.00.00.119
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A view of a cave, the entrance to which is decorated with a pediment and frieze
- Description:
- Title from text below image., Produced by Whitby after her own drawing, and printed at her private amateur lithographic press on her Newlands estate, near Poole Bay in Hampshire., and Printed on thin lithographic paper contemporaneously laid on thicker wove sheet.
- Publisher:
- privately printed
- Subject (Geographic):
- Italy.
- Subject (Topic):
- Caves and Graves
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > S. Memoria Paulia Pompilia Benedicta [graphic]
