Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851
Title:
Panorama of the Progress of Human Life, fashionably display'd : illustrating Shakespears Ages and giving at the same time the manners, costume, amusements, and the field sports of the English people, the whole illustrative of modern characters in a series of many hundreds of moving figures.
Alternate Title(s):
Panorama of human life
Published / Created:
London : Published by S.&J. Fuller, Rathbone Place, April 20, 1820.
Physical Description:
1 print on 3 joined sheets : hand-colored aquatint ; sheets end-to-end 7 x 457 cm, rolled to 10 x 15 cm (scroll format)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Prints
Notes:
Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 474
Subject Terms:
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Illustrations. | Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784-1851. National Field Sports -- Illustrations. | Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works. | Manners and customs -- Great Britain -- Pictorial works.
Form/Genre:
Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1820. | Panoramas. | Scrolls -- England -- 19th century.
Contributors:
S. and J. Fuller, publisher.