Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Mirth extinguished.
Call Number
D North 53/GC112/Box 27/Normal/Drawings/Rothrock GA 2014.00763
Identifier
ark:/88435/7d279213p
Publisher
n.d.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1756-1899
Extent
1 item ; sheet 18.9 x 15 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Dickson Q. Brown, Princeton University Class of 1895.
References
Rothrock no. A49
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Pencil drawings, Pen-and-wash drawings on wove paper
Depiction: Death puts pointed cap on head of seated clown.
Unsigned.
Perhaps an unused idea for the English Dance of Death (1816). Cf plate 28 The Pantomime. Https://wellcomeimages.org/indexplus/image/V0041981.html.

Discovery Information

Subject
Clowns—Great Britain—18th century—Caricatures and cartoons
Death (Personification)—Caricatures and cartoons
Caricature

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/7bce7df2-d724-4efa-8691-6eb36c80e032/manifest