Fores's racing envelope [graphic].

Description

Title: Fores's racing envelope [graphic].
Creator: Leech, John, 1817-1864, printmaker
Contributor: Jobbins, John Richard, -1866, printer.
Messrs. Fores (Firm), publisher.
Published / Created: [1840]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published by Messrs. Fores at their sporting & fine print repository & frame manufactury, 41 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street
Abstract: Number five 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 comic envelopes, Fores's musical envelope, Fores's alderman envelopes, Fores's hunting envelopes, etc
Description: Other prints in the series attributed to John Leech and dated 1840. See British Museum onlne catalogue.
Title from text above image.
"No. 5".
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xxiii. Formerly owned by John Richard Jobbins, with his stamp.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 9.1 x 14 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1840
Lithographs England London 1840
Material: lithograph ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Mulready, William, 1786-1863.
Subject (Topic): Gambling
Horse racing
Postal stationery
Race horses
Race tracks
Subjects: Mulready, William, 1786-1863
Gambling
Horse racing
Postal stationery
Race horses
Race tracks
England > 1840
England > London > 1840

Access: Public
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