Saint Giles without Cripplegate Parish Church (London, England)
Published / Created:
[ca. 1756]
Call Number:
File 646 17-- D952+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An invitation to the ancient ceremony of beating the bounds, with a large view of St. Giles's from the south (figures include a strolling couple, a playing boy, and a cripple with his dog) and a vignette of the church. The form has blanks left for the signatures of the stewards as well as the date (day, month, and the two numbers for the decade) and place of dining to be written in by hand
Alternative Title:
Sir, you are desired to meet the rest of your parishioners on [blank] the [blank] of [blank] at [blank]
Description:
Title from first lines of text etched below image., Date of publication based on the manuscript signatures of the churchwardens and overseers, which are dated 1756-1757., Text below title begins: Sir, you are desired to meet the rest of your parishioners on [blank] the [blank] of [blank] at [blank] ..., At top of plate, the arms of Sir Benjamin Maddow and the text: Ex dono Benj. Maddox Barrti. June 1709., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three edges.
Publisher:
The Church stewards
Subject (Geographic):
London (England), England, and London.
Subject (Name):
Saint Giles without Cripplegate Parish Church (London, England)
A collection of English engraved advertisements, trade cards, invitations to society functions, and bookplates probably compiled around 1758 by F. [ or T.?] Legge of St. James's Market and mounted in an album, with five later items laid-in. In some cases the collector has recorded on the versos the circumstances in which he acquired a card. The trade cards include a wide range of London businesses: apothecaries and druggists; booksellers; bookbinders and related trades of leather gilder and case makers; brush makers; boot and shoes makers; cabinet and chair makers; cards and paper goods providers; chimney sweeps; clock and watch makers; coach maker; confectioners; sellers of combs and cutlery; coopers; dentists; distillers; drapers; dyers; engravers; fan makers; figure makers; furriers; glassmakers; goldsmiths; grocers; gun makers; hairdressers; hatters and hosiers; ironmongers; jewelers and brokers; mercers; milliners; makers of musical instruments; oil men; paper makers and paper hangers; pewterers; picture framers; plumbers; printsellers; saddlers; makers of scales; stationers; tea merchants; tin-workers; snuffman and tobacconists; tool makers; toy makers and sellers; trunk makers; turners; undertakers; upholsterers; sundries. In addition to intact copies of cards, the album includes details of decorative elements trimmed from other copies or other cards and advertisements as well as decorative and armorial bookplates
Description:
Title from spine. and Full leather calf binding with a Cambridge panel design, exterior and inner-most panels "sprinkle" style, gold tooled, gilt edges, and red leather spine label "Trade tokens and bookplates"; tri-color handsewn endbands in red, blue and yellow. Six raised bands with ornate gold tooled ornaments on the spine.
"An advertisement for the theatre around a tree, two women standing either side, at left kneeling and holding out a ribbon inscribed 'As you like it', at front a man seated on the floor holds out a sheet of paper upon which is written 'The Agreeable Surprise', behind at left a black harlequin holds a stick labelled 'invasion', beside him 'Venice preserved' is draped across a branch; in the distance at right a windmill advertises the diversity of the programme with Farce, Pantomine, Tragedy and Comedy emblazoned on the sails; within an elaborate oval frame with dramatic masks and daggers at top and bottom; after Bunbury, illustration from the 'European Magazine'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from banner above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf numbered 22 in a bound volume of 33 prints: Eighteenth century tickets / by Bartolozzi and others.
"An advertisement for the theatre around a tree, two women standing either side, at left kneeling and holding out a ribbon inscribed 'As you like it', at front a man seated on the floor holds out a sheet of paper upon which is written 'The Agreeable Surprise', behind at left a black harlequin holds a stick labelled 'invasion', beside him 'Venice preserved' is draped across a branch; in the distance at right a windmill advertises the diversity of the programme with Farce, Pantomine, Tragedy and Comedy emblazoned on the sails; within an elaborate oval frame with dramatic masks and daggers at top and bottom; after Bunbury, illustration from the 'European Magazine'."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from banner above image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., On page numbered 24 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils]., Top of sheet trimmed to design with no loss., and 1 print : engraving on laid paper ; sheet 17.0 x 12.2 cm.
A funeral procession with the coffin on the shoulders of the pallbearers and mourners following behind as they proceed up the steps of a church
Alternative Title:
You are desired to accompany ye corps ...
Description:
Title from text below image. and Plate from: Ireland, S. Graphic illustrations of Hogarth. London : Publisherd by R. Faulder, New Bond Street, and J. Egerton, Whitehall, 1794, vol. 1, opposite p. 10.
An invitation to accompany the Society of Painters at St Lukes Feast on Thursday 24 November, 1687 in Painter Stayner's Hall; with a cartouche illustrated with an allegory of the arts with painting in the center, with winged Fame holding a laurel crown In the top corners are emblems of painting and architecture and on the bottom, drawing (disegno) and sculpture as a putto
Alternative Title:
Sr., you are desired to accompany the Society of Painters ... and Sir, you are desired to accompany the Society of Painters ...
Description:
Title from item., Artist from manuscript annotation on earlier state in the British Museum., Later state of the plate, with alterations to allow the invitation to be used for a variety of events; portions of the engraved text have been removed to create spaces for manuscript additions. For an earlier state with engraved text specific to a St. Luke's Feast on 24 November 1687, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1977,U.1223., Date from British Museum online catalogue., and Mounted on board to: 39 x 30 cm. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Worshipful Company of Painters.
Subject (Topic):
Allegories, Artists' materials, Angels, Artists, and Putti
Emblematic funeral ticket for Isaac Watts, Congregational minister, hymn writer, theologian, and logician who died 25 November 1748. In the center is a mausoleum decorated with pillars and scrolls with three small Cherub heads along the top and the lid decorated with two full-figure Cherubs holding torches on either side of an urn at the top of the structure. The center has been left blank to allow for the letterpress printing (used as the title). On the left, standing on a low block, is the allegorical figure of Time, shown as an old, bearded man with wings, scythe, and hourglass. On the right Death stands on a coffin, shown as a skeleton with an arrow in his left and his right hand resting on one of the small heads decorating the base of the mausoleum. Along the base of the mausoleum hangs a cloth with an image of a funeral procession in a graveyard. On the hills in the background are churches and on the right, a ruins overgrown with vines. In the sky centered above the mausoleum is the symbol of the Holy Ghost and above it the Sun and on either edge two Cherub heads
Description:
Title from letterpress text in a compartment left blank in an elaborately engraved pictorial sheet. and Plate mark: 23 x 27 cm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Cherubs, Churches, Coffins, Death, Funeral processions, Sun, Skeletons, and Tombs & sepulchral monuments
Title from item., Date based on contemporary annotation "9" in brown ink causing year on invitation to read "1759"., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., On leaf 4 of an album of trade cards and invitations., and Contemporary annotations in brown ink fill the blanks.
Title from item., Date from contemporary annotation in lower right corner: JL [monogram] 1758., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., On leaf 162 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates., and Contemporary manuscript annotations in brown ink fill the blanks on recto; "To Mr. Legg, Coffee Mill, St. James's Market" written in brown ink on verso.
Collection of mostly English engraved trade cards for a wide variety of London businesses, especially those advertising goods and services relating to household furnishings, men and women's attire and accessories such as gloves, boots, and swords, mercers and haberdashery being the most numerous. In addition there are cards for: cabinet makers, engravers and jewelers, clockmakers, tea shops, grocers, wine suppliers, exotic oil suppliers, apothecaries, hair styling, an auctioneer, and an undertaker. Also included are several invitations to private events such as a birthday party and a lodge meeting. Also included is one advertisement for an Edinburgh pewter shop and one for a French supplier of maps
