Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
A grave subject or meditations among the tombs.
Call Number
D North 53/GC112/Box 27/Normal/Drawings/Rothrock GA 2014.00727
Identifier
ark:/88435/j6731b886
Publisher
n.d.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1756-1899
Extent
1 item ; sheet 15.3 x 20 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Rothrock no. A13
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Pencil drawings, Pen-and-wash drawings on wove paper
Depiction: On left, gravedigger in open grave with spade and skull, mattock beside grave, old man at grave's edge, churchyard with young woman, young man, priest. Verso: Pen sketch of various figures.
Unsigned.
'Title above in TR's hand. Also c1800-1810. The same title, an allusion to James Hervey's popular Meditations Among the Tombs (1754) can also be found in Doctor Syntax, Meditating on the Tombstones, plate 10 in Doctor Syntax's Tour in search of the.

Discovery Information

Subject
Cemeteries—Great Britain—In art
Gravediggers—Great Britain—19th century—In art
Occupations—Great Britain—19th century—In art
Skull in art
Clergy—Great Britain—19th century—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/06567162-49d9-436e-8ed7-e29633e1ad61/manifest