Advertisement showing a funeral possession led by an empty hearse passing by the two-and-one-half story residential business front of undertaker "P.R. Schuyler." A sign with the name of the proprietor and illustrated with a coffin adorns the arbor adjacent to the building. Trees line the sidewalk on which a lady, holding a parasol, strolls. She precedes the first (and fully visible) horse-drawn carriage in the procession on the cobblestone street. Also shows partial views, predominately roof and upper windows, of neighboring and surrounding buildings. The hearse driver wears mourning attire including a top hat with ribbon., Title from duplicate in the collections of the Atwater Kent Museum., Date from Poulson inscription on recto: [illegible] NE cor. Beaver & 4th. Aug. 1847., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 537, LCP copy trimmed and lacking title in English and German., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator
Rease, W. H., artist
Date
ca. 1848
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W261 [P.2151]
