[Letterhead for Blundell's School, Tiverton] [graphic]

Description

Title: [Letterhead for Blundell's School, Tiverton] [graphic]
Creator: Ireland, Anna Maria, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: [1794]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Samuel Ireland
Abstract: Copy of a design for the letterhead use for 1726 an invitation to a dinner for former pupils of William Rayner at Blundell's School, Tiverton. The vignette shows, on the left, small boys reading and, on the right, in front of a bookcase, Minerva pointing a boy towards the school while another boy assists Mercury as he waters a tree growing a pot. The frame around the vignette is topped by a fountain referring to the motto: In patriam populumque fluxit. In a ribbon below the image is another motto: Utrique unus et ex uno stemmate surgis honos. Without the text of the invitation engraved below
Description: Title devised by cataloger.
Cf. Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth, v. i, p. 18.
A copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 104.
Provenance: Gift of Joseph Verner Reed (Yale 1926) to the Yale Library, 1958. Portions were transferred to Lewis Walpole Library 1960. For other items from this gift refer to Beinecke Library's GEN MSS 1000.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 120 x 155 mm, on sheet 155 x 236 mm
Language: English

Access: Public
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