Northern Looking Glass #6
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join free"Politics" in Northern Looking Glass #6 delivers a haunting, satirical glimpse into a world where the line between civic duty and macabre spectacle blurs. William Heath, handling every aspect of the artwork, crafts a grimly vivid scene of spectral processions, clandestine resurrectionists, and guarded graves, all under the shadow of a 1/0 [0-1-0 GBP] cover price from 1825.
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A spectacled skeleton marches through a churchyard beating a drum inscribed Glasgow Chronicle; he is followed by a second skeleton with a flag inscribed Popular Anatomy Mechanics Institution. Behind them run a crowd of mechanics and a woman, waving hats and arms. Five men ('resurrectionists.') in a room, three asleep, one tipsy. On a table are a coffin, a lighted candle, and a tankard. In a graveyard round a lighted lantern are four armed guards, two of whom sit on tombstones drinking with women. In the background a tiny figure escapes over the wall with his grisly burden in a sack.
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