Fores's aldermen envelopes [graphic].

Description

Title: Fores's aldermen envelopes [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, Fores's dancing envelope, Fores's courting envelope, etc
Description: Title and imprint supplied by cataloger and based other "Fores's envelopes" published by Messrs. Fores.
Other prints in the series attributed to John Leech and dated 1840. See British Museum onlne catalogue.
Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed within design with loss of imprint statement and title.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xxiii.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 9.0 x 13.3 mmc
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1840
Lithographs England London 1840
Material: litghograph ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Mulready, William, 1786-1863.
Subject (Topic): City council members
Postal stationery
Subjects: Mulready, William, 1786-1863
City council members
Postal stationery
England > 1840
England > London > 1840

Access: Public
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