print; book-illustration

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Object Type: print; book-illustration
Museum number: Q,8.162
Title: Object: Tomb of Archbishop Sheldon.
Description: The funeral monument of Gilbert Sheldon, the recumbent effigy upon the tomb, leaning his cheek on one hand and holding his crosier with the other, dressed in a rochet with a mitre on his head, pillows beneath his elbow, skulls, bones and hour-glasses on the sarcophagus below, illustration to Lyson's 'Environs of London' (1792). Stipple
Producer name: Print made by: C Knight; Published by: Thomas Cadell
School/style
Production date: 1792
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 228 millimetres; Width: 282 millimetres
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Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names: Portrait of: Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury; Illustration to: Samuel Lysons
Associated titles
Acquisition date: 1811 (before)
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: Q,8.162
Additional IDs: Other BM number: 2006,U.3808

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