Fores's comic envelopes [graphic].

Description

Title: Fores's comic envelopes [graphic].
Creator: Leech, John, 1817-1864, printmaker
Contributor: Jobbins, John Richard, -1866, printer.
Messrs. Fores (Firm), publisher.
Published / Created: [1840]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published by Messrs Fores, Sporting and Fine Art print Repository & Frame Manufactury 41 Picadilly, corner of Sackville Street and Printed by J.R. Jobbins 3 Warwick Ct.
Abstract: Letter sheet, a parody on new stationary designed for the Post Office by William Mulready; Britannia seated at centre, despatching postmen to different parts of the World; a lion standing at her feet, with letters hanging from his tail, and a monkey seated on his back; in foreground at left and right, postmen on horseback, riding at high speed. One of a series if prints published by Messers. Fores that parodies the infamous Mulready stationary released by the British Post Office in 1840; each of the prints is numbered and centers on a different theme, e.g. Fores's military envelope, Fores's hunting envelope, Fores's comic envelopes, Fores's alderman envelopes, etc
Description: Title, imprint, printmaker, printer and date from British Museum catalgoue.
"No. 1."
Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within design with loss of imprint statement and title.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xxiii.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 10.0 x 16 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1840
Lithographs England London 1840
Material: lithograph ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Mulready, William, 1786-1863.
Subjects: Mulready, William, 1786-1863
England > 1840
England > London > 1840

Access: Public
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