Memento mori [graphic] : Remember to die.

[London?] : [s.n.], [ca. 1708?]

1 print : woodcut ; 184 x 216 mm

paper

Printed funeral invitation, with woodcut border featuring a torch-lit funeral procession (in the lower margin) as well as numerous skulls and skeletons, hour glasses, and a smiling grim reaper.

Title from item.

Conjectured place and date of publication based on ms. content on Folger copy.

Great Britain -- England -- London.

Y.d.1786

With manuscript text in center: You are desired to accompany the corps of Mrs. Susan Barrow from her late dwelling house in Little-Marlborough Street to the parish church of St. James's Westminster on ffriday the eighteenth of ffebruary 1708 at eight of the clock in the afternoon precisely

Acquired from Samuel Gedge Ltd. in 2012 (cat. XII, no. 47).

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