BM11472-a-farmers-philosophy-in-death-1809-0308
identifier:
BM11472-a-farmers-philosophy-in-death-1809-0308
title:
A Farmer's Philosophy in Death
date:
1809
description:
The farmer, looking up, with folded hands, sits upright in an armchair. He wears a dressing-gown and night-cap, and appears fairly robust. The lawyer stands at his right hand, eagerly bending forward to write 'The last Will and Testament of, . .'; behind him is the elder son, a gaping shock-headed youth in a smock. Behind the right arm of the chair is the doctor, sucking his cane disconsolately. On his left hand are the parson, with a grog-blossom nose, holding an open book, the weeping wife, plainly dressed in cap and apron, with a little girl holding a handkerchief to her face, and a smaller boy, yelling. Dialogue is in speech balloon above the farmer. Source: George.
description:
British Museum #11472
format:
24 cm x 34 cm
type:
Paper
type:
Etching, hand-colored
coverage:
London, England
relation:
LUCA2016.14 1809
subject:
Death and dying
subject:
Satire
subject:
Great Britain
creator:
Bunbury, Henry William
relation:
Michalak Collection
source:
Loyola University Chicago Archives and Special Collections
rights: