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- Published / Created:
- [1817]
- Call Number:
- File 56 C47 817B
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Abstract:
- A broadside illustrated with engraved head-and-shoulders portraits of Princess Charlotte and Prince Leopold at top of sheet followed by 29 lines of letterpress text mourning the death of the Charlotte on November 6th, 1817
- Description:
- Title from beginning of letterpress text., Portraits at top have the engraved captions "Princess Charlotte" and "Prince Leopold.", Biographical details immediately above lower border., "Price one shilling."--Below lower border., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- published not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817, Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817,, and Léopold I, King of the Belgians, 1790-1865,
- Subject (Topic):
- Death and burial
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Britons! Look on these pictures, and while you deplore the untimely loss of the one, and worthily sympathise in the acute grief of the other of the illustrious originals, endeavour to imitate the public and domestic virtues which have so eminently distinguished both. ...
- Published / Created:
- [1821]
- Call Number:
- File 53 C292 821L
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text
- Description:
- Caption title., "London, Tuesday evening, half-past ten o'clock.", First line: The struggle is over! Hope, fear, anxiety, are now alike at an end! ..., Printer identified from entry in British Book Trade Index., and Laid on to blue paper. For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- J. Plant, printer, Derby
- Subject (Name):
- Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
- Subject (Topic):
- Death and burial
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Last moments and death of Her Majesty
4.
- Published / Created:
- [1793]
- Call Number:
- File 82 793M++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Abstract:
- Minerva Press broadside detailing the unfortunate end of Louis XVI on the guillotine, January 21, 1793 in Paris. The broadside includes a woodcut illustration of a man lying face down waiting for the blade of the guillotine to drop; the decree of the French National Convention authorizing the execution of "Louis Capet;" descriptions of his execution and of the guillotine--"the modern beheading machine"--and a few anecdotes indicating "that for some time [the king] had been expecting his fate."
- Description:
- One of several variants; in this edition, the text of the second column begins with the words: "middle of the square, directly facing the gate of the garden of the Tuileries..." See also English short title catalogue, nos. T194096 and T039027., Caption title., Text printed in two columns; text and illustration within double-ruled black border., "Price three-pence.", "Where may be had an exact and authenticated copy of his will, price one-penny"--Lower margin., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- Printed at the Minerva Office, for William Lane, Leadenhall-Street, and sold wholesale at one guinea per hundred and And retail by every bookseller, stationer, &c. in England, Scotland and Ireland
- Subject (Geographic):
- France and France.
- Subject (Name):
- Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793 and Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793.
- Subject (Topic):
- Death and burial, Politics and government, Foreign public opinion, British, and Public opinion
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Massacre of the French king! : view of la guillotine, or the modern beheading machine, at Paris, by which the unfortunate Louis XVI (late King of France) suffered on the scaffold, January 21st, 1793
- Published / Created:
- [1821]
- Call Number:
- File 53 C292 821On+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Description:
- Caption title., With a woodcut portrait of Queen Caroline above two columns of text, within a mourning border., First line: In what rapid succession has death been making its inroads upon the Royal Family of England! ..., and Laid on to cream card. For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- Printed by P. White, 25, New-street, Bishopsgate, for the Religious Tract Society, and sold by J. Davis, at their Depository, 56, Paternoster-row; and J. Nisbet, 15, Castle-street, Oxford-street
- 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
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > On the death of Her Late Majesty, Queen Caroline
- Published / Created:
- [1817]
- Call Number:
- File 56 C47 817To
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text
- Description:
- Caption title., Broadside, with three paragraphs of text within thick mourning border and initialed ‘J.W.L.’ at the end. ‘From the Morning Post of Nov. 11th’ printed in lower left. Beneath the title are three lines quoted from Lord Lyttleton's 'To the memory of the same lady, a monody. A.D. 1747.', First line: Even thus in the flower of youth - in the bloom of loveliness - ..., and Laid on to a slightly larger modern sheet. 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
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > To the memory of the Princess Charlotte of Wales