[Fores's hunting envelope] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Fores's hunting envelope] [graphic].
Creator: Leech, John, 1817-1864, printmaker
Contributor: Messrs. Fores (Firm), publisher.
Jobbins, John Richard, -1866, printer.
Published / Created: [1840]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Messrs. Fores
Abstract: One 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: Title supplied by cataloger.
Other prints in the series attributed to John Leech and dated 1840. See British Museum onlne catalogue.
Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed with loss of imprint statement and title.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xxiii.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 8.8 x 14 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1840
Lithographs England London 1840
Material: lithograph ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Mulready, William, 1786-1863.
Subject (Topic): Game & game birds
Hunting
Postal stationery
Subjects: Mulready, William, 1786-1863
Game & game birds
Hunting
Postal stationery
England > 1840
England > London > 1840

Access: Public
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