You are desired to attend the funeral of the late Reverend Isaac Watts, D.D. : from Lorimer's-Hall, London-Wall, to the burial-ground in Bunn-Hill-Fields, on Monday, the 5th day of December, l748, at one o'clock in the afternoon.
- Published/Created:
- [London?]
[publisher not identified],
[ca. 25 November 1748] - Physical Description:
- 1 sheet ([1] page) : 1 engraving ; 26 x 40 cm
- Notes:
- Plate mark: 23 x 27 cm.
Title from letterpress text in a compartment left blank in an elaborately engraved pictorial sheet. - Abstract:
- Emblematic funeral ticket for Isaac Watts, Congregational minister, hymn writer, theologian, and logician who died 25 November 1748. In the center is a mausoleum decorated with pillars and scrolls with three small Cherub heads along the top and the lid decorated with two full-figure Cherubs holding torches on either side of an urn at the top of the structure. The center has been left blank to allow for the letterpress printing (used as the title). On the left, standing on a low block, is the allegorical figure of Time, shown as an old, bearded man with wings, scythe, and hourglass. On the right Death stands on a coffin, shown as a skeleton with an arrow in his left and his right hand resting on one of the small heads decorating the base of the mausoleum. Along the base of the mausoleum hangs a cloth with an image of a funeral procession in a graveyard. On the hills in the background are churches and on the right, a ruins overgrown with vines. In the sky centered above the mausoleum is the symbol of the Holy Ghost and above it the Sun and on either edge two Cherub heads.
- Topics:
- Cherubs.
Churches.
Coffins.
Death.
Funeral processions.
Skeletons.
Sun.
Tombs & sepulchral monuments. - Topics:
- Watts, Isaac,--1674-1748--Death and burial.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Engravings--England--London--1748.
Invitations. - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Call Number:
- 748.11.25.01
- Orbis Record:
- 13772968
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr36914
- OID:
- 16704469
- PID:
- digcoll:4679443
