Yoxall - Burial urn: woodcut engraving

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Date:1788

Description:Showing a burial urn, which according to a letterpress account, is one of forty vessels found full of ashes on levelling a piece of ground. This example was presented to Richard Greene's Museum, writes A. B. from Lichfield in 1778. 'A. B.'

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Donor ref:SV-XII.151b (45/10191)

Source: William Salt Library

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