Medicine, Religious aspects, Catholic Church, Nuns as nurses, Physician and patient, Death, Dead persons, Hospital wards, Physicians, Grief, Nuns, and Altars
King George IV and the Marchioness of Conyngham grieve over the body of a dead giraffe, which had been sent to them by Mehmet Ali, Pasha of Egypt. There is a black mourning border around the image. Left, two Nubians lament. Right, the Lord Chancellor ...
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Title from text below image.
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Published by T. McLean, 26 Haymarket
Subject (Name):
George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861, Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838, Abernethy, John, 1764-1831., Conyngham, Elizabeth Conyngham, Marchioness, -1861., Eldon, John Scott, Earl of, 1751-1838., and George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830.
Subject (Topic):
Giraffe, Pets, Death, Bagpipes, Medicines, Bagpipe, Medicine, Giraffes, and Grief
"A woman sitting over the cradle of her child, at right a servant woman seen from the back pours from a jug into a saucer resting on a ledge below a portrait of the Lady, standing three-quarter length with folded arms; oval design after Bunbury, illus...
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Title engraved below image.
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Publish'd Jany. 20th, 1794, by W. Dickinson, No. 24 Old Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Bothwell, Ann, Lady,
Subject (Topic):
Cribs (Children's beds), Infants, Grief, Women domestics, and Pitchers
An elderly townsman leans over a table complacently counting gold coins, holding up a finger to enjoin silence on a countryman who appeals to him with an expression of despair. The latter's elderly wife, equally distressed, stands behind him on the le...
Alternative Title:
Pleasure
Description:
Tim Bobbin's Human passions delineated, first published in 1773. Tim Bobbin is the pseudonym of John Collier.
"A young girl shown head and shoulders, facing front with her hands clasped at her breast, and looking tearfully away to left, hair loose and wearing a poor loose gown and cloak; in an oval frame; after Josiah Boydell."--British Museum online catalogu...
Alternative Title:
Child of sorrow
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Title from item.
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Published by J. Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London
A dying young naval officer's widow, seated with right leg crossed over the other, in a ship's cabin, directed to right, head in profile, wearing a sprigged gown and plumed hat, making lace at a small work-table, naval coat and sword on the window-sil...
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Title from item.
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Published 12 May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Floor coverings, Grief, Staterooms, Wallpapers, and Widows
The eleventh drawing in a series of twelve that follow a tradition of producing a series on modern morals, a tradition established earlier in the 18th century by artists such as William Hogarth. In this series, twin brothers are bestowed an equal fort...
