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• Title:[Evangelical writing sheet] [graphic].
  
• Publication:[Chester, England?] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1798]
  
• Physical Description:1 print : engraving ; plate mark 46 x 37 cm, on sheet 48.5 x 39 cm
  

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  • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library
    
    
  • Call Number: 798.00.00.72+
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Notes:With three poems entitled “On the Resurrection", "On mortality", and "On death” written in ink at center of sheet.
    For further information, consult library staff.
    
  • Provenance:Samuel Gedge; May 2018.
    
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• Medium:laid paper.
  
• Local Notes:Lewis Walpole Library impression: Center blank space is filled in with three manuscript poems in black ink entitled 'On resurrection', 'On mortality', and 'On death'. The document is signed in the blank oval on the side of the dragon, "William Lea Yoxall's Christmas piece, December 16th, 1798, Chester".
  
• Notes:Title devised by cataloger.
  Place and date of publication based on manuscript note at foot of sheet.
  
• Summary:A writing sheet engraved with vignettes and the large interior space left blank. At the top is a scene with a throne on a platform in the center at the top of a pie-shaped set of stairs with angels standing along the edges on both the right and the left. Behind the line of angels are crowds of people, with the group from the left seemingly walking towards the right. Along the base of the design is a banner held at either end by cherubs blowing horns, inscribed are the words "Come unto me; ye blessed!" Many of the figures in the crowds wear crowns, one holds a harp and another a censer on a chain. The back of the throne is decorated with three connected triangles, points down and with a crown above the oval head rest, rays of light emanating from all sides. On the left margin are vignettes entitled "The birth" and "The wedding" and on the right "The christening" and "The burial". At the foot of the plate is an image of a dragon-like beast from whose mouth streams a banner bearing the engraved text: “There shall be weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth". A large oval shape on the dragon's body is left blank.
  
• Variant and related titles:Text engraved within banner in top image: Come unto me, ye blessed!
  
• Format:Visual Material
• Subjects:Death--Poetry.
  Mortality--Poetry.
  Resurrection--Poetry.
  Angels.
  Baptisms.
  Births.
  Funeral rites & ceremonies.
  Harps.
  Putti.
  Religion.
  Thrones.
  Weddings.
  
• Genre/Form:Engravings--England--Chester--1798.
  Pictorial lettersheets.
  Watermarks (Paper)
  Devotional literature.
  Poems.
  Decorated papers.
  Writing paper.
  Annotations (Provenance)--18th century.
  
• Also listed under:Yoxall, William Lea, approximately 1783-