[Letterhead for Blundell's School, Tiverton] [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- [Letterhead for Blundell's School, Tiverton] [graphic]
- Contributor
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
- Published / Created
- [not before 1798]
- Publication Place
- London?
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- 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
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Title devised by cataloger.
Anna Marie Ireland's signature "A.M.I. fet." burnished forom lower right?
A copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 104.
Ms. note in Steevens's hand: Ticket for the School at Tiverton, Devonshire. Ms. note in pencil: Sold for £10.0.0.
On page 5 in volume 1. - Provenance
- George Steevens bequeathed this collection to William Windham (1750-1810). At Windham's death, the collection was put up for sale on 20 July 1810 and was bought in by Mrs. Windham at 292 guineas; by descent through the Windham family; Sotheby's, 17 February 1919 to Dyson Perrins for £400; Sotheby's sale including Property of the Late C.W. Dyson Perrins, Esq., 11 June 1959, lot 100 purchased by Maggs Bros. for W.S. Lewis for £1300.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 119 x 154 mm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Letterheads
Engravings England London 1798 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Mercury (Roman deity),
- Subjects
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Mercury (Roman deity)
England > London > 1798
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 12446631
- Object ID (OID)
- 16193746
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