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
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., On leaf 158 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates., and Contemporary manuscript annotations in brown ink fill the blanks on recto; "To Mr. Legg" written in brown ink on verso.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., On leaf 161 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates., and Contemporary manuscript annotations in brown ink fill the blanks on recto; "To Mr. Becket" written in brown ink on verso.
Carl Van Vechten papers relating to African American arts and letters
Container / Volume:
Box 5 | 144-145
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Alternative Title:
[Invitation to wedding of Countee Cullen and Nina Yolande Du Bois]
Subject (Name):
Cullen, Countee, 1903-1946, Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963, Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938, and Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964
An album of engraved tickets, invitations, bookplates, and other designs, some in multiple impressions and states, one in proof, mostly black and white, with one in sepia ink, mostly engraved by Bartolozzi or his pupils. Other artists and printmakers include: I.C.B., G.B. Cipriani, E.F. Burney, B. West, L. Legoux, R.H. Cromek, H. Bunbury, Walker, Cook, Tresham, and Fittler. Most engravings are undated though some tickets are dated between 1778-1797; a few name printers and publisher: W. Hinton, G. Graglia, Mr. Sandby, J. Sewell
Description:
Title from printed t.p. with unsigned, undated engraving, mounted.
"Apollo; standing, facing front, holding a lyre in his left hand, raising his right hand; a banner above him, another beneath; in an oval; copy after bill-head by Bartolozzi who etched after Cipriani in 1780."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from image., Year from modern handwritten note in lower right corner., For earlier impression without title, Cf. Lewis Walpole Copy: no. 2 in Folio 75 B28 804., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page numbered 3 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].