About the Artwork
Funeral Invitation
18th century
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English
English
Etching printed in black on laid paper
plate: 10 7/8 x 13 5/8 in. 27.5 x 34.5 cm sheet: 13 x 16 1/2 in. 33.0 x 41.8 cm
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Founders Society Purchase, Miscellaneous Gifts Fund
F72.283.113
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
In plate, lower center: Sold by John Ryland No. (7 or 17), Old Bailey; in brown ink, center of image: You are (devised) to attend the / Funeral of George Michl. Mover / Esqr. from his late dwelling in / Somerset House to the Parish / Church of St. Paul Covent Garden / on Thursday ye 30th of Jan. 1783 / at 1/2 past 3 o'clock in the / Afternoon Precisely; bottom right edge of sheet: ( ) a Coach will Attend at the above time.; upper center, verso: Charles Catton Esqr / Gate Street Lincoln / ( ) Fields
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Kennedy Gallery and Edith Cole Silberstein
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English, Funeral Invitation, 18th century, Etching printed in black on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Miscellaneous Gifts Fund, F72.283.113.
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