Various Artists

Funeral Rites - Lithograph - 1862

1862

Uses and Customs - Objects of Funerals is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862. The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: "History of t...

Uses and Customs - Angles and men is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862. The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: " History of the g...

Uses and Customs - Tragic Scene is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862. The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: " History of the gov...

Uses and Customs - Magistral Rite is a lithograph on paper realized in 1862. The artwork belongs to the Suite Uses and customs of all the peoples of the universe: " History of the g...

Copper-line engraving with later hand-colouring from Passeri's 'Picturae Etruscorum In Vasculis Nunc Primum .....', published in Rome in 1767. Sizes : 270mm by 160mm (platemark)

'Cerimonia nuziale degl' Indiani nel Canada' / 'Cerimonia di uno scioglim : di matrimonio degl' Indiani nel Canada' Italian lithograph, c1841. Originally from 'Galleria universale d...

The present hand-colored lithograph was produced as part of the funeral and mourning culture in the United States during the 19th century. Before the printmaking boom of the 1830s, however, such inexpensive memorial images were not widely available. These prints became popular as ways of remembering loved ones, an alternative to portraiture of the deceased or to meticulous hand-embroidered memorials often made by female academy students. In the image, the urn-topped monument contains a space where a family could inscribe the name and death dates of a deceased loved one, though this example was never used. In the variations of this image type produced by the Kellogg...

Set of eight antique prints depicting various scenes, figures, and objects of North America and Native Americans. These prints originate from 'Iconographic Encyclopedia of the Arts a...