Sisters in sorrow,1900,Britannia,Mourning Female Figure,Casket,John Tenniel

Title: [Sisters in sorrow]
Creator(s): Tenniel, John, Sir, 1820-1914, artist
Date Created/Published: 1900 Aug. 8 [publication date]
Summary: Britannia, a draped female figure, extends her hand to a mourning, female figure of Italia, kneeling beside a casket.
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Published caption reads: Britannia (to Italia). 'You have lost a noble King, and I a noble Prince.' H.R.H. Prince Alfred Ernest Albert, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Prince of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Edinburgh, &c., died Tuesday, July 31. Humbert the First, King of Italy, assassinated at Monza, Sunday, July 29.
Signed, lower right: JT monogram / 1900.
Title from Punch.
Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974; (DLC/PP-1974:232.634)
Tenniel's cartoon was published in Punch shortly after the deaths of King Humbert the First of Italy and Queen Victoria's fourth-born child, Prince Alfred Ernest Albert. King Humbert's assassination by an Italian anarchist, deeply shocked the world, as did the death of Prince Alfred who died of heart failure.
Published in: Punch, August 8, 1900.
Exhibited: Graham Gallery, 'Cartoon and Comic Strip Art,' 1972.
Subjects:
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Alfred,--Duke of,--1844-1900--Death & burial.
Umberto--I,--King of Italy,--1844-1900--Assassination.
Britannia--1900.
Grief--1900.
Cartoons (Commentary)--British--1900.
Drawings--British--1900.
Periodical illustrations--British--1900.
Bookmark /2009617456/
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