Subscription ticket for "Four Prints of an Election" with the royal crown as a sun casting its rays on coronets, mitres and other symbols of power, as well as on a copy of "Hogarth's" Act of 1735; a third receipt is added
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., First lines of text: "In humble & grateful Acknowledgment, of the Grace & Goodness of the Legislature, Manifested ... and the most in Esteem of may in Europe.", Blank subscription ticket., and 1 print : etching and engraving ; plate mark 225 x 190 mm, on sheet 282 x 226 mm.
Subscription ticket for "Four Prints of an Election" with the royal crown as a sun casting its rays on coronets, mitres and other symbols of power, as well as on a copy of "Hogarth's" Act of 1735; this state has the receipt on a separate plate
Description:
Title and state from Paulson., Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed with loss of subscription information on lower plate, leaving traces of handwritten text., First lines of text: In humble & grateful Acknowledgment, of the Grace & Goodness of the Legislature, Manifested ... and the most in Esteem of may in Europe., and With William Hogarth's signature and blanks filled in with Horace Walpole's name and the date of receipt. Also with Hogarth's seal in red wax.
Title devised by curator; alternative titles from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 82 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
An invitation to the funeral of Dr. John Ward, Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College, Fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies, and trustee of the Britisih Museum
Alternative Title:
Sir, you are desired to attend the funeral of Dr. John Ward
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Added title from letterpress text set in the image., Possibly Charles Antoine Coypel (printmaker; painter/draughtsman; French; 1694-1752)? J. Loveday amateur printmaker?, First line of text: Sir, you are desired to attend the funeral of Dr. John Ward, from his apartments in Gresham College to the burying-ground at Bunhill ... the 24th of October, 1758 ..., and Lewis Walpole Library impression: With extensive contemporary annotations including a transcription of the Latin text on Ward's monument on the verso. Newspaper clipping of his obituary from October 18 mounted above the image and numbered "323". The sheet has been trimmed with a loss of the name of the addressee and other text[?] on verso and recto. With ms. note laid in, possibly a transcription for a caption with biographical details of John Ward and signed: "[...]bster pinxit ; Jacobus Macardell scalpsit."
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Ward, John, 1678-1758
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Memorial rites & ceremonies, Death, Monuments & memorials, and Memorials
Image of a fan surrounded by angels and women, with a crown above
Alternative Title:
Shop card for Gordon's Old Fan Warehouse
Description:
Title, artist, printmaker and date from Paulson., Extensively burnished and reworked plate, without former captions or signatures and with a small "J.S." inside the design. See Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 55 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Title devised by cataloger., Text within decorative border of repeated typographic ornaments., An information card detailing distance in miles from the stages on the route (Grantham to London) and the time taken to reach each stage., "N.B. The passengers are desired to acquaint the proprietors of each stage if the posillions take up any out-passengers upon the road, as they apprehend the robberies of the machines have been owing to that practice.", and For further information, consult library staff.
Title devised by curator., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom edge., and On leaf 137 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Title devised by curator., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of all text apart from "[...]ng" in lower left corner and "Stre[...]" in lower right corner., and On leaf 137 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.