Illustrated memorial published after the death of Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Wales, who died after giving birth to a stillborn child in 1817. One of many similar memorials using the same illustration (an urn beneath a weeping willow) but with different verses
Description:
Title from item., Letterpress text with engraved illustration above; within a mourning border., First line of verse beneath title: Trembling I touch the plaintive chord, to speak our England’s grief ..., and "Maria" written in a contemporary hand in lower right corner. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Published by the authoress, and sold by T. Gardiner and Son, 20, Princes-street, Cavendish-square; and at No. 209, Piccadilly
Subject (Name):
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817
Caption title., In verse., Text within ornamental border., An ode to Queen Caroline, who died soon after the Coronation of her husband George IV, an event to which she was refused entry., First line: The fairest of flowers must shed all its blossom ..., "Price one penny."--Following imprint., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed & published by B. Johnson, Hudson's-Court, 482, Strand, London
Subject (Name):
Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817
Published / Created:
[1822]
Call Number:
File 56 C47 822C
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text
Description:
Caption title., Broadside publication of a letter in the Royal Collection, from Princess Charlotte to her mother, the Princess of Wales, later Queen Caroline in which she discusses her thoughts and feelings of her impending motherhood just a month before her death following the birth of a stillborn son., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Oakley, printer, Blandford
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817 and Caroline, Queen, consort of George IV, King of Great Britain, 1768-1821
Invitation to a dinner of the Guardians of the Asylum for Female Orphans. At top is a scene of a woman leading three orphan children away to the left, while the bodies of soldiers are taken away to the right; text with the details of the meeting engraved below. The whole is enclosed within a border of leaves
Description:
Caption title., All engraved., Illustration is signed: C.R. Ryley delin.; W. Skelton sculp., Beneath title are the names of six "Stewards", engraved on either side of a small image of a woman with the caption "When my father and my mother foresake me, the Lord taketh me up"., "Dinner to be on table at half past four o'clock precisely. No collection after dinner."--Bottom of sheet., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Asylum for Orphan Girls (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Orphanages, Charities, Charity, Orphans, Soldiers, and British
"Trade card of Archibald Robertson, drawing master, at Savill Row Passage, adjoining Squib's Auction Room; a street with Robertson's shop to the right, figures on the pavement, an arched passageway at the end of the street; in oval with figures at the bottom corners; text below."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Archibald Robertson, print-seller and drawing-master ...
Description:
Title from engraved text below image., Paul Sandby, who lived above Robertson's shop and collaborated with him, was possibly involved in the production of the image., Date from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Banks,56.23., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Text continues: ... colour boxes, the best black lead and hair pencils, indian ink, port-folios with or without leaves, ladies black tracing paper, and very fine transparent do. for etching, with copper plates prepared for do. etching needles &c. &c. &c. Visiting cards, engraved in the most elegant manner; great choice of paper hangings in the newest taste. NB: Sandby's works in aqua tinta, to be had complete, prints framed & glazed, and drawings neatly fitted up, all sorts of stationary wares., and Mounted on sheet with with notes from a previous owner about the card. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Archibald Robertson
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Robertson, Archibald, 1765-1835. and Sandby, Paul, 1731-1809.
Subject (Topic):
Artists' materials industry, Graphic arts equipment industry, Stationery trade, Artists' studios, and Stores & shops
Trade card of the engraver and copper plate printer Francis Arnold. At center is a detailed vignette of a printer's workshop with two workers, one engaged in the process of engraving a copper plate and the other at the printing press, with sheets drying above and bind sheets at his feet. Engraved text on either side of the vignette lists some of the products offered: "Invoice heads, address cards, arms, crests, &c. &c."; and "Manufacturers patterns engraved and printed."
Alternative Title:
Arnold, engraver and copper-plate printer ...
Description:
Title from item., Date from business directories listing Arnold at this Bath Street address from 1818., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Francis Arnold
Subject (Geographic):
England and Birmingham.
Subject (Topic):
Printing industry, Engravers, Workshops, and Printing presses
Proposal for rules and regulations for a yearly subscription, at the cost of two shillings and sixpence, for the tenants of Sir George Pauncefote-Bromley, 2nd Baronet, to the 'Association for the Prosecution of Felons, & &', by which the subscribers 'shall keep an accurate account of the Ages, Colours, and Marks of Cattle, the particulars of his Stock, and other Goods ... Any person guilty of committing Felony upon the property of any Servants of the Subscriber, shall be prosecuted at the expense of the Society.' and Original marbled wrappers, printed paper label to front cover: Association for the prosecution of felons, &c, &c. For further information, consult library staff.
June [blank] 1757. As the Act of Parliament for an additional duty on news-papers will take place the 5th of next month ...
Description:
Title transcribed from item., Text at bottom: I am, [blank], your most obliged, humble servant, [blank]., and Form completed in ink on 25 June 1757, with a 10/- per quarter cost for the Evening Post and 5/- for the Weekly Journal noted in lower left; annotated "Rec'd for June 27 -1757" in upper left; signed "Jos. Baker" in lower right. For further information, consult library staff.
Present schools as Mr. Towle, teaches in for the year of 1783
Description:
Title from first line of text., The sheet is headed: "The present schools as Mr. Towle, teaches in for the year of 1783 ... ", and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed by B. Leverett, where every article of letter-press printing is reasonably performed