Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
[Hearse receiving coffin].
Call Number
D North 53/GC112/Box 27/Normal/Drawings/Rothrock GA 2014.00770
Identifier
ark:/88435/5999nb50p
Publisher
n.d.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1756-1899
Extent
1 item ; sheet 8.6 x 19.7 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Rothrock no. A56
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Pen-and-wash drawings on laid paper
Depiction: Outdoor scene. Front of building, on right coffin being loaded into hearse, on left widow and mourners.
Unsigned.
There is a drawing of a funeral procession in the Mellon illustrated as #190, p. 504 in Baskett & Snelgrove1977.

Discovery Information

Subject
Funeral rites and ceremonies in art
Grief in art
Widows in art
Genre painting

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/4181a622-55ec-4f0b-9989-970b6ab65cfa/manifest