Nocturnal scene of a churchyard, with a raven perched in a large tree. Below him a sexton with his shovel points towards the left, while glancing back towards a corpulent clergyman, a lawyer holding a candelabra and a shield depicting skull and bones, and a doctor with his gold-headed cane and vial
Description:
Title engraved below image., Numbered in plate: 326., Bottom edge of image retouched in the plate with drypoint., Date estimated from British Museum catalogue, volume 5, Appendix, "Key to the dates of the series of Mezzotints issued by Carington Bowles.", Verse in plate: Near the church-yard grim Death's purveyors see, with emblems fit a close connected three! One shows a phial, and the other two look their assent, as if they'd say t'will do: The sexton pleas'd stands ready to attend, points to the grave and eyes his greatest friend. Th'ill boding raven seems to croak aloud, swallow the dose, and that bespeaks your shroud., and Publication date erased from this copy of the print.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map and Print Warehouse, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
"Pitt (left) holds up the dome of St. Paul's which he is about to place over the central tower of Lincoln Cathedral (right). He stands in a graveyard at some distance, and leans forward, on tip-toe, his right foot resting on a rectangular tombstone inscribed 'Hic jacet' and decorated with a bishop's mitre, a winged skull, and cross-bones"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Minister endeavouring to eke out Dr. Pretyman's bishopric
Description:
Title etched below image., Counterfeit signature; print by Gillray. See British Museum catalogue., and Temporary local subject terms: St. Paul's Cathedral -- Lincoln Cathedral.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1787 by R. Phillips, Southwark
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 and Pretyman, George, 1750-1827
Subject (Topic):
Cathedrals, Cemeteries, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
"Pitt (left) holds up the dome of St. Paul's which he is about to place over the central tower of Lincoln Cathedral (right). He stands in a graveyard at some distance, and leans forward, on tip-toe, his right foot resting on a rectangular tombstone inscribed 'Hic jacet' and decorated with a bishop's mitre, a winged skull, and cross-bones"--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Minister endeavouring to eke out Dr. Pretyman's bishopric
Description:
Title etched below image., Counterfeit signature; print by Gillray. See British Museum catalogue., Temporary local subject terms: St. Paul's Cathedral -- Lincoln Cathedral., 1 print : aquatint with etching on wove paper ; plate mark 32.7 x 24.5 cm, on sheet 36.2 x 27.1 cm., and Mounted on leaf 10 of volume 2 of 12.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1787 by R. Phillips, Southwark
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Pitt, William, 1759-1806 and Pretyman, George, 1750-1827
Subject (Topic):
Cathedrals, Cemeteries, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
"Social satire: two gentlemen with guns cry to heaven for mercy when they think they have shot a cherub in a graveyard; a man in a smock nearby says "Rot it now, if these had not been your Lononers wha they 'zay be zo knawing I should ha zworn it had been an Owl", which in fact it is."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Murdered cherub, or, The Cockney's distress at the bloody-deed and Cockney's distress at the bloody-deed
Description:
Title etched below image., Reissue, with imprint statement mostly burnished from plate, of a print originally published 7 November 1804 by S.W. Fores. For the earlier state, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1985,0119.388., Publication date from watermark., Printseller's announcement following title: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the ev[ening]., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Printseller's identification blind stamp located in lower right corner of sheet: S·W·F., and Watermark: John Hall 1825.
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)
"Graveside scene at night; a fat vicar swathed in a surplice and looking at a book by the light of a lantern held up by a thin, singing clerk, from whom he also takes some snuff; the open grave to left, the child's coffin beside it, mourners behind, shrouded so that all but one face is invisible, the church in the background; scene illustrating the tale of 'the vicar and Moses', in which the clerk came to fetch the vicar to bury an infant but stayed to drink with him till past midnight, when both staggered out to go to the church; verses to the song below."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Numbered '(Plate II)' in lower right below image., Second of two plates illustrating a popular song under the same title., Thirty-two lines of verse (second half of the song) printed in two columns below title: Then Moses went on, Sir; the clock has struck one, ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Sheet trimmed mostly within plate mark.
Publisher:
Published July 17th, 1795, by I. Coard, No. 11 Lisson Street, Edgware Road
Tom Nero, now a highwayman, has been arrested for the murder. He stands in the churchyard over the body of his pregnant lover, Ann Gill, whose throat and wrist are severed. One from the group of men who have apprehended Tom show him the knife as the others restrain him; they are armed with pitchforks, sticks, and other farm tools. Ann lies on her back on the ground, the bundle of plate that she has stolen from her mistress at Nero's request spilling out at her side. The light from the lantern in the left foreground illuminates the contents of Ann's letter to Tom telling the story of her entanglement and guilt. A box with her initials is open revealing a copy of the Book of Common Prayer and a copy of God's revenge against murder. Also on the ground near the lantern are Tom's pistol and a collection of watches that he has stolen. The clock in the church tower shows 1:00; a bat and owls circle overhead
Description:
Title, state, and series title from Paulson., Third in a series of four: The four stages of cruelty., and On page 157 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed to: 50.8 x 39.8 cm.
Publisher:
Invd. & publish'd by Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Cemeteries, Criminals, Churches, Homicides, Pregnant women, and Rake's progress
Tom Nero, now a highwayman, has been arrested for the murder. He stands in the churchyard over the body of his pregnant lover, Ann Gill, whose throat and wrist are severed. One from the group of men who have apprehended Tom show him the knife as the others restrain him; they are armed with pitchforks, sticks, and other farm tools. Ann lies on her back on the ground, the bundle of plate that she has stolen from her mistress at Nero's request spilling out at her side. The light from the lantern in the left foreground illuminates the contents of Ann's letter to Tom telling the story of her entanglement and guilt. A box with her initials is open revealing a copy of the Book of Common Prayer and a copy of God's revenge against murder. Also on the ground near the lantern are Tom's pistol and a collection of watches that he has stolen. The clock in the church tower shows 1:00; a bat and owls circle overhead
Description:
Title, state, and series title from Paulson. and Third in a series of four: The four stages of cruelty.
Publisher:
Invd. & publish'd by Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Cemeteries, Criminals, Churches, Homicides, Pregnant women, and Rake's progress
Title devised by curator, based on pencil annotation "Eaton-Socon" at bottom of mounting sheet., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date supplied by cataloger., and Mounted on page 78a in an extra-illustrated copy of: Lysons, D. Magna Britannia. London : T. Cadell and W. Davies, 1813.
Subject (Geographic):
Eaton Socon (St. Neots, England)
Subject (Topic):
Buildings, structures, etc, Churches, and Cemeteries
