Invitation to a dinner with the governors of the Worshipful Company of Curriers
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Sir, the pleasure of your company is requested to dine with the Master, Wardens, and Court of Assistants of The Worshipful Company of Curriers
Description:
Title from item., Letterpress text, with a woodcut illustration of the arms of the Company of Curriers printed above., Form completed in manuscript on 8 March 1839, specifying a dinner on 30 March at the "London Coffee House, Ludgate Hill.", Mounted to 27.2 x 20.8 cm., and Mounted opposite page 40 in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Malcolm, J.P. Londinium redivivum, or, An antient history and modern description of London.
Invitation for an election of governors of the Worshipful Company of Dyers, to take place at Dyers Hall on 10 October 1827
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Sir, you are hereby summoned to appear at Dyers Hall, Elbow Lane, Dowgate Hill, on Wednesday the 10th day of October 1827
Description:
Title from item., Letterpress text, with an engraved illustration (signed "Engraved by W. Turner, 69 Cheapside") of the arms of the Company of Dyers printed above., Mounted to 27.2 x 20.9 cm; mounted above is small (sheet 36 x 46 mm) hand-colored etching of the arms of the Company of Dyers., and Mounted opposite page 49 in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Malcolm, J.P. Londinium redivivum, or, An antient history and modern description of London.
An album of engraved tickets, invitations, bookplates, and other designs, some in multiple impressions and states, one in proof, mostly black and white, with one in sepia ink, mostly engraved by Bartolozzi or his pupils. Other artists and printmakers include: I.C.B., G.B. Cipriani, E.F. Burney, B. West, L. Legoux, R.H. Cromek, H. Bunbury, Walker, Cook, Tresham, and Fittler. Most engravings are undated though some tickets are dated between 1778-1797; a few name printers and publisher: W. Hinton, G. Graglia, Mr. Sandby, J. Sewell
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Title from printed t.p. with unsigned, undated engraving, mounted.
"Apollo; standing, facing front, holding a lyre in his left hand, raising his right hand; a banner above him, another beneath; in an oval; copy after bill-head by Bartolozzi who etched after Cipriani in 1780."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from image., Year from modern handwritten note in lower right corner., For earlier impression without title, Cf. Lewis Walpole Copy: no. 2 in Folio 75 B28 804., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page numbered 3 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
"Bill-head for the benefit of Mr Giardini; on the left, Venus seated on ground; two putti surrounding her, one of whom holding a torch; on the right, five putti in front of a water fountain: one playing the trumpet, one playing the lute, three singing; in an oval with a banner at bottom; after Cipriani; cut in an oval."--British Museuum online catalogue
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Title from banner below image., Date from British Museum online catalogue, Cf. museum registration no. 1897,1231.269., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page numbered 6 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
An invitation to an 1853 event, the Roscoe Centenary Festival, sponsored by the city of Liverpool in honor of William Roscoe, Liverpool banker, poet, writer and collector, among the founders of the Liverpool Society for the Encouragement of the Arts of Painting and Design and Whig MP for Liverpool; also first president of the Liverpool Royal Institution. Opponent of the slave trade, he published several pamphlets on the subject and was elected on an anti-slavery platform. After retiring in 1796, he studied botany and opened the Liverpool Botanic Garden in 1802. The invitation shows classical figures representing his many gifts, surrounding a ship, representing his business interests
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Title from text in image., Text below image left: Pvblic Philharmonic Hall., Text below image right: Liverpool, March VIII, MDCCCLIII., and Ms. note: Thomas Sansom [Montee?].
"Diana on the right, seated on a stone under a tree, receiving a ribbon lettered "Francisca Xaviera Nieto y Aguilar" from three women who stand on the left; in an oval within a rectangle; after Stothard; fourth state."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title from caption below image., Date and state from British Museum online catalogue, Cf. museum registration no. 1897,1231.387., and On page numbered 11 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
Lady Ailesbury's invitation card designed by Bentley: with decorated border, three candles in candlesticks on the left and a teapot on the right. With the blanks filled in with her hand [?]: Lady Ailesbury's compts. to Mr. Walpole and desires the favour of his company on Monday evening the 1t. of Jany
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Lady Ailesbury's compts. to and desires the favour ..., Lady Ailesbury's compliments to and desires the favour ..., and Lady Ailesbury's invitation card
Description:
Title from etched text., Formerly mounted on leaf 14 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [ca. 1760]., The Lewis Walpole Library: With the blanks filled in with her hand [?]: Lady Ailesbury's compts. to Mr. Walpole and desires the favour of his company on Monday evening the 1t. of Jany., and With ms. note in Horace Walpole's hand on verso: Designed by Mr. Bentley.
