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
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 ...
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
"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