18th Century Material Culture

Burial Grounds I

Burial Grounds,
Tombs & Gravestones

Frontispiece to the London Magazine 1760

by R. Baldwin 1760
(Lewis Walpole Library)

THE TOMB STONE = Here lieth the Body of WILLIAM DUKE OF CUMBERLAND
1765
(Colonial Williamsburg)

A Study for an Unidentified Monument

by Joseph Nollekens 1766
(Victoria & Albert Museum)

A Painters Grave
Associated with Thomas Worlidge c. 1766
(The British Museum)

A Monument erected over the Grave of Mr. Allen Junior, in the Church Yard of St. Mary, Newington: ...
Engraved for the Oxford Magazine
(Lewis Walpole Library)

A Monument erected over the Grave of Mr. Allen Junior, in the Church Yard of St. Mary, Newington: ...
Engraved for the Oxford Magazine
(Lewis Walpole Library)

EDW.D KELLY, A MAGICIAN. in the Act of invoking the Spirit of a Deceased Person
by John Ames after M. Sibly c. 1770 - 1800
(Lewis Walpole Library)

The Merits and Defects of the Dead by their Ingenious Secretary

by William Austin 1773
(Lewis Walpole Library)

The Merits and Defects of the Dead by their Ingenious Secretary

by William Austin 1773
(Lewis Walpole Library)

 Pontefract Church; View of Ruined Structure and Graveyard

British School c. 1772 - 1785
(The British Museum)

A Project for a Tomb for Rousseau (France)

by Denis Nee after Jacques Franqois Barbier c. 1778 - 1785
(The British Museum)

ALL ALIVE or The POLITICAL CHURCHYARD

by B. Pownall 1783
(The British Museum)

Tomb of Thomas Ruthall, Bishop of Durham

by Thomas Kirgate 1784
(Lewis Walpole Library)

THE TOMBS OF THE WORTHIES

by M. Smith 1784
(Lewis Walpole Library)

CHILDREN READING THE INSCRIPTION ON THEIR MOTHERS GRAVE

by William Ward, published by John Raphael Smith after William Ward 1785
(The British Museum)

A Lady in the Habit of a Nun visiting a Tomb

by Francis Jukes after John Kendell 1785
(The British Museum)

 Charlotte at the Tomb of Werter

by Robert Samuel Marcuard, after Robert Smirke, published by James Walker 1785
(The British Museum)

CHARLOTTE AT THE GRAVE OF WERTER

by S.W. Fores at the Caracature Warehouse No. 3 Piccadilly 178(6)
(Lewis Walpole Library)

LOVATS GHOST on PILGRIMAGE

by Samuel Ireland, by Malton & Co. 1788
(Lewis Walpole Library)

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