Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
[Coffin arriving].
Call Number
D North 53/GC112/Box 27/Normal/Drawings/Rothrock GA 2014.00717
Identifier
ark:/88435/xp68kq32m
Publisher
n.d.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1756-1899
Extent
1 item ; sheet 18 x 13.7 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Rothrock no. A03
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Pencil drawings, Pen-and-wash drawings on wove paper
Depiction: Interior genre scene. Two men carry coffin into room; woman mourns over man in bed.
Unsigned.
The tragic rendered comic in a typical Rowlandson vignette - does not appear to correspond directly with a print, though undertakers and coffins appear in a number of prints from the early Resurrection, or The Frighted Nurse. (1785) - later reissued.

Discovery Information

Subject
Death in art
Grief in art

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/2ae668c0-15e7-4035-b4b2-5d99f4520b14/manifest