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
A woman seated in a chair lays across the top of a chest of drawers weeping. Behind her is a canopy bed with curtains mostly drawn and only the feet of her deceased father are visible
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...
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...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Published 12 May 1794 by Laurie & Whittle, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):
Floor coverings, Grief, Staterooms, Wallpapers, and Widows
"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
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Published by J. Boydell, engraver in Cheapside, London
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 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...
Description:
Title engraved below image.
Publisher:
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
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 ...
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
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
Medicine, Religious aspects, Catholic Church, Nuns as nurses, Physician and patient, Death, Dead persons, Hospital wards, Physicians, Grief, Nuns, and Altars
Plate [170] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Illustration to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; in his prison cell, Russell embraces two of his daughters, his wife beside holding his shoulders and looking up to heavens, at left an elder girl turns away weeping, holding the hand of...
Alternative Title:
Lord William Russel's last interview with his family and Lord William Russell's last interview with his family
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
Engraved card printed within black mourning border, illustrated above title with an image of Prince Leopold leaning mournfully over his wife Princess Charlotte's tomb, which is adorned with her portrait and topped with an urn. Sixteen lines of verse a...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
T. Crabb
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817 and Léopold I, King of the Belgians, 1790-1865,
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Tombs & sepulchral monuments, and Grief
Crabb, T. (Thomas), active 1811-1815, author, publisher
Published / Created:
[1817?]
Call Number:
File 56 C47 817Cr
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Abstract:
Engraved card printed within black mourning border, illustrated above title with an image of a mourning Britannia with Claremont, Charlotte’s home, and her funeral cortege, in the background. Twenty lines of verse are engraved at the bottom, signed "C...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Published by T. Crabb, 1 Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row
Subject (Name):
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817
Engraved card printed within black mourning border, illustrated above title with an image of Prince Leopold and Britannia in front of Princess Charlotte's tomb adorned with her portrait and topped with an urn. Six numbered stanzas of a hymn and two st...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Published by Thos. Crabb, Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Name):
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817 and Léopold I, King of the Belgians, 1790-1865,
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Britannia (Symbolic character), Tombs & sepulchral monuments, Grief, and Musical notation
Woodward, G. M. (George Moutard), approximately 1760-1809, artist
Published / Created:
[approximately 1800]
Call Number:
Drawings W87 no. 30 Box D180
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An elderly woman (left) clasps her head in despair and looks up, away from the body of a tiny dog which a black liveried footman holds on a cushion. Both figures are shown three-quarter length
Description:
Title inscribed in black ink in the artist's hand.
"Two women ..., the Duchess of Gordon and her daughter, weep beside an ornate coffin on trestles decorated with ducal coronets and the arms and crest, 'Che Sara Sara', of the Duke of Bedford. The Duchess, grossly fat and much caricatured, her hands on...
Alternative Title:
Disapointed Dido still in despair and Disappointed Dido still in despair
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. May 9th, 1802, by S.W. Fores, 50 Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Gordon, Jane Gordon, Duchess of, 1748-1812, Bedford, Georgiana Gordon Russell, Duchess of, 1781-1853, and Bedford, Francis Russell, Duke of, 1765-1802.
Subject (Topic):
Crying, Grief, Coffins, Obesity, Miniatures (Paintings), Hats, and Wigs
Plate [81] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Titlepage for the continuation of Chapter XXIII; Elizabeth sitting at a table to right, writing out a declaration, while Richard III stands looking at her and gesturing towards her grieving children who are gathered to left, the foremost sitting with...
Alternative Title:
Queen Dowager putting herself and daughters under the protection of Richard the Third
Description:
Title from text above image.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Elizabeth, Queen, consort of Edward IV, King of England, 1437?-1492, and Richard III, King of England, 1452-1485,
"Satire on the South Sea Bubble: mezzotint showing a mourner holding an empty money bag upside down. Above, an emblematic image with, from left to right, a failed investor holding a torn paper reading, "Poverty is at an end"; a man falling from clouds...
Alternative Title:
Englands folly
Description:
Title from text above center image.
Publisher:
Printed for Bowles & Carver, 69, St. Paul's Church Yd
Subject (Geographic):
England
Subject (Name):
South Sea Company
Subject (Topic):
Speculation, Business failures, Commerce, and Grief
Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812, Wilkes, John, 1725-1797, Pitt, William, Earl of Chatham, 1708-1778, and Temple, Richard Grenville-Temple, Earl, 1711-1779
Plate [93] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Illustration to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; Wolsey lying in bed at right, four grieving figures surrounding the bed."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Published by R. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Pall Mall
Werter clutches his head in anguish as he stands before Charlotte on a sofa supporting her head on one hand as she reaches out imploringly towards Werter. The pictures on the wall amplify the subject
Alternative Title:
Last interview
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 29 1786 by E. Jackson No. 14 Marylebone Street Golden Square
"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, s...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published July 17th, 1795, by I. Coard, No. 11 Lisson Street, Edgware Road
The twelfth 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 fortu...
Volume 2, page 18. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Lady Bothwell sitting beside a cot, where a child lies sleeping, her hands raised, looking down at it sorrowfully, while another sits with her back to the viewer, pouring a cup and a lady wearing a beret stands in the doorway in the background to rig...
Description:
Title from later state.
Publisher:
Publish'd Jany. 20th, 1784, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
Subject (Name):
Bothwell, Ann, Lady,
Subject (Topic):
Cribs (Children's beds), Infants, Grief, and Pitchers
Plate [118] Plate in: Series of one hundred and ninety-six engravings, (in the line manner) by the
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Vignette to Bowyer's edition of Hume's 'History of England'; a woman grieving, comforted by Cupid, at the foot of a monument with portrait medallion of Mary, surmounted by an urn and surrounded by bushes."--British Museum online catalogue
"In a grassy glade an ape lies as if asleep. His desolate mate sits on her haunches, watching him. They do not wear clothes. Below: '"-- now will canker Sorrow eat my bud, / And chase the native beauty from his cheek," Shakespeare.' ['King John', III....
Description:
Title from British Museum catalogue.
Publisher:
Published Decr. 1, 1827 by Moon, Boys & Graves, 6 Pall Mall and Chez Piers Bernard Boulevar des Italiens
