Daniel Macdonald 1820-53 Returning from an Irish Funeral 1842 Pen and ink on paper 22.5 x 2 7.3 in In Returning from an Irish Funeral,a group of satan-may-care peasants, including the gravediggers, or hitch a ride domestic from a funeral in the canopied hearse,which the outlying riders are attempting to overtake. Amid the hilarity, geese scatter and pigs forage. The sketch features a ruined Gothic church and round tower (a subject of much obscure but occasionally ludicrous scholarship), or deserted graveyard in the distance. The literature of the time is replete with duplicitous Irish characters taking advantage of their …Continue reading →
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