- Published / Created:
- 1826.
- Call Number:
- 826.00.00.18+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A group stand in a churchyard, as two men lower the coffin into a grave. The one sexton has two patches on his britches
- Description:
- Title from text above image., Print caption: Running to earth or in at the death. Finnis Coronat Opus., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three edges., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
- Publisher:
- Published by Thos. McLean, 20, Tichborne Street, Haymarket
- Subject (Topic):
- Cemeteries
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > A country burial [graphic]
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- Creator:
- Madan, D., active 1790-1799, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [17 July 1795]
- Call Number:
- 795.07.17.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "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
- Subject (Topic):
- Cemeteries
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The vicar and Moses. [graphic] / (Plate II)
- Creator:
- Pettit, John, active 1780-1790, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- April 10 1789.
- Call Number:
- Drawer 789.04.10.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Eleven plain, elderly women walk in a procession from left to right between the tombstones of a country church yard. Two of them, at the head of the procession, carry a small coffin with a cat's effigy on it. Behind them walks a crying woman with a handkerchief raised to her eyes. She is the only one who does not carry a cat under her arm. The feline participants of the funeral appear agitated
- Description:
- Title from item., Eight lines of verse in two columns on either side of title: No lover's corse this virgin train attend ..., Printseller's announcement below title: In Holland's exhibition rooms may be seen the largest collection in Europe of caricatures and other humorous prints and drawings. Admittance 1 shilling., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Mentioned in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, under no. 8558, as in Anthony de Rothschild's collection, v. 2, p. 138.
- Publisher:
- Published by William Holland at Garrick's, Richard No. 50 Oxford Street
- Subject (Topic):
- Cemeteries
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Old maids at a cat's funeral [graphic]