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. and A copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 105.
