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 the...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
T.C. Lewis & Co., 96 Cheapside, London
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Death, Funeral rites & ceremonies, Graves, Shovels, Grief, Crying, and Monkeys
"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 catalo...
Alternative Title:
Charlotte at the grave of Werther
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. Jany. 1, 178[...?] by S.W. Fores at the Caracature Warehouse No.3 Piccadilly
