Content: Printed on border: "…taken from one of Sir Gardner Wilkinson's engravings, a scene in the representation of a funeral procession crossing the Lake of the Dead (no. 2), that appears in one of theses early paintings at Thebes … the retrograde movement of the large boat, which has grounded and is pushed off the bank, striking the smaller one with its rudder, has overturned a large table loaded with cakes and other things, upon the rowers seated below, in spite of all the efforts of the prowman, and the earnest vociferations of the alarmed steersman. The accident which thus overthrows and scatters the provisions intended for the funeral feast, and the confusion attendant upon it, form a ludicrous scene." Includes additional text.
Source Note: A history of caricature grotesque in literature and art : with illustrations from various sources, drawn and engraved. Virtue Brothers, 1865) Wright, Thomas (1810-1877), Author. Fairholt, F. W. (Frederick William) (1814-1866), Engraver.

Physical Description

Wood engravings
Extent: sheet 21 x 14 cm (8 x 5 1/2 in.)

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b17959630
Barcode: 33333159486097
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 7fc21380-c52e-012f-6686-58d385a7bc34

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Type Of Resource

Still Image

Date Issued

1865

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MLA format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Catastrophe in a funeral procession" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1865. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7fc21380-c52e-012f-6686-58d385a7bc34

APA format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1865). Catastrophe in a funeral procession Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7fc21380-c52e-012f-6686-58d385a7bc34

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Catastrophe in a funeral procession" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 18, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/7fc21380-c52e-012f-6686-58d385a7bc34

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