File:Meditations among the tombs. (BM 1977,U.524).jpg
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Summary
Meditations among the tombs.
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| Title |
Meditations among the tombs. |
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| Description |
English: A gravedigger and a young woman making love against a church wall at left, at the corner of which is a priapic stone carving, a shovel and skull at their feet; a burial taking place in the graveyard behind at right; the surrounding tombs decorated with phallic and vulval symbols and various legends: 'Life is a jest / And all things shew it / I thought so once / But now I know it'; 'Herveys Meditiation'; 'To the memory of Roger Pego'; 'Here lies entombed / Beneath these bricks / The scabbard of ten thousand pricks.'
Hand-coloured etching with stipple |
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| Depicted people | Associated with: James Hervey | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date | 1790-1810 (c.) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Collection |
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| Current location |
Prints and Drawings |
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| Accession number |
1977,U.524 |
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| Notes | The sheet is trimmed within the design at left and right; for a more complete impression, see 1977,U.553. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1977-U-524 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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