Lying-In Hospital for Married Women (London, England)
Published / Created:
[1786]
Call Number:
File 66 786 L984
Image Count:
1
Abstract:
An invitation to a dinner with the president, vice president, and governors of the Lying-in Charity at the Pauls Head Tavern, Cateaton Street. Includes a list of 12 stewards and announces the date of the sermon to be preached by the Right Revd. Samuel Lord Bishop of Gloucester at St. Martin's in the Fields
Alternative Title:
Sir, your company is desired to dine with the president & governors of the Lying-in Charity for married women and Increase of children a nations strength
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., First line of text: Sir, your company is desired to dine with the president & governors of the Lying-in Charity for married women at their own habitations on Tuesday the 25th of April., Motto in banner at top of design: Increase of children a nations strength., Dated "10th March 1786"., All engraved. Plate mark 164 x 200 mm., and Numbered in mss. in upper left corner '839'. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Lying-In Hospital for Married Women (London, England)
A copy of Hogarth's print for the subscription ticket for "Garrick in the Character of Richard III" with an image of a rolled manuscript, a laurel wreath, palette and mask suspended from a rope or piece of drapery
Alternative Title:
Bearer hereof is intitled to [blank]
Description:
Title assigned by Paulson for original Hogarth print., Printmaker, publisher, and date from later state., Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 164., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand at top of page: See Mr. Nichols's book, 3d edit, p. 28., and On page 122 in volume 2.
Hogarth's print for the subscription ticket for "Garrick in the Character of Richard III" with an image of a rolled manuscript, a laurel wreath, palette and mask suspended from a rope or piece of drapery
Alternative Title:
Subscription ticket for Garrick in the Character of Richard III
Description:
Title, date, and printmaker from Paulson., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of receipt., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand at top of page: See Mr. Nichols's book, 3d edit., p. 281., and On page 122 in volume 2.
A copy of Hogarth's print for the subscription ticket for "Garrick in the Character of Richard III" with an image of a rolled manuscript, a laurel wreath, palette and mask suspended from a rope or piece of drapery
Alternative Title:
Bearer hereof is intitled to [blank]
Description:
Title assigned by Paulson for original Hogarth print., Printmaker, publisher, and date from later state., Copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 164., With Hogarth's wax seal and signature., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand at top of page: See Mr. Nichols's book, 3d edit, p. 281., and On page 122 in volume 2.
"Bill-head for the benefit of Mr Giardini; on the left, Melpomene seated on a parapet, holding a dagger in her right hand; two putti at her feet: one lying dead, the other standing and scratching his hair; on the right, Thalia standing, accompanied by a putto who holds a torch; after Cipriani; open-letter state."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
For the benefit of Mr. Giardini
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Date from British Museum online catalogue, Cf. museum registration no. 1897,1231.275., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page numbered 4 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
"Thalia; seated on a rock, head in profile to right, holding a lyre in her left hand and a mask in right; on the right, a winged child flying in the air, in profile to left, trying to touch the mask with his right hand; another mask and Pan flute on ground; in an oval on pedestal; after Cipriani; illustration to 'Songs, duets etc. in the Duenna, ... as performed at the Theatre Royal in the Covent Garden' by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (fifteenth edition, London: 1776)."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Muse
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Added title from Calabi and de Vesme: Muse., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page numbered 41 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
"Ticket to the Pantheon; a family concert outside a thatched cottage with a boy blowing a trumpet accompanying his sister who sings from a sheet, while the parents look on; in frame wrapped in garlands, ... cartouche at top."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., With embossed wafer seal in red ink of the "Society of Musicians" in lower left corner, and the concert details "Pantheon, Friday, May 16th, 1788" added in ink within blank cartouche at top of image., Imperfect; sheet torn in lower right corner resulting in loss of printmaker's signature. Trimmed to plate mark on left edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: C,2.1476-1483., Watermarked paper: LV., and With contemporary ink signatures of "Arnold" (for Samuel Arnold) and "Sandwich" (for the Earl of Sandwich, as Society committee members) to blank lower margin; verso with contemporary ink note "No. 158. Richard Sulivan Esq. Subscriber." For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Charity, Musical instruments, Families, and Dwellings