Fores's dancing envelope [graphic].

Description

Title: Fores's dancing envelope [graphic].
Creator: Leech, John, 1817-1864, printmaker
Contributor: Messrs. Fores (Firm), publisher.
Published / Created: [1840]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Messrs. Fores
Abstract: Number three in a series of prints published by Fores that parodies the infamous Mulready stationery 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 from text above image.
Printmaker and date from British Museum catalogue.
"No. 3".
Imprint from related 'envelope' prints published by Messrs. Fores.
Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xxiii.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 9.1 x 14 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1840
Etchings England London 1840
Material: lithograph ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Mulready, William, 1786-1863.
Subject (Topic): Ballet dancers
Dancers
Dance
Postal stationery
Teachers
Subjects: Mulready, William, 1786-1863
Ballet dancers
Dancers
Dance
Postal stationery
Teachers
England > 1840
England > London > 1840

Access: Public
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