An invitation to the funeral of Dr. John Ward, Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College, Fellow of the Royal and Antiquarian Societies, and trustee of the Britisih Museum
Alternative Title:
Sir, you are desired to attend the funeral of Dr. John Ward
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Added title from letterpress text set in the image., Possibly Charles Antoine Coypel (printmaker; painter/draughtsman; French; 1694-1752)? J. Loveday amateur printmaker?, First line of text: Sir, you are desired to attend the funeral of Dr. John Ward, from his apartments in Gresham College to the burying-ground at Bunhill ... the 24th of October, 1758 ..., and Lewis Walpole Library impression: With extensive contemporary annotations including a transcription of the Latin text on Ward's monument on the verso. Newspaper clipping of his obituary from October 18 mounted above the image and numbered "323". The sheet has been trimmed with a loss of the name of the addressee and other text[?] on verso and recto. With ms. note laid in, possibly a transcription for a caption with biographical details of John Ward and signed: "[...]bster pinxit ; Jacobus Macardell scalpsit."
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Ward, John, 1678-1758
Subject (Topic):
Death and burial, Memorial rites & ceremonies, Death, Monuments & memorials, and Memorials
Title supplied by cataloger., "Long Live the King!" etched in banner below cameo., Caption inside oval shape: "This ticket will admit / One of the Common Council of this City into - the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, on Thursday, the 23rd, of April 1789, to attend His Majesty on the Solemn Occasion of a Thanksgiving, for the Happy Restoration of his Health.", and On leaf numbered 23 in a bound volume of 33 prints: Eighteenth century tickets / by Bartolozzi and others.
"Visiting-card of Countess Harriet Frances Bessborough; invitation to a ball given by her; in a room; a woman seated on a chair, holding a bird in her right hand, a flame in her left; two putti holding a banner over her; after Cipriani; proof before letters."--British Museum online catalogue
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Title supplied by cataloger., Date from British Museum online catalogue, Cf. museum registration no. 1870,1008.2313., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page numbered 12 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
"A woman with a veil, standing in profile to right, holding a tomb in form of a large pot; on the right, a winged naked child, mourning by the side of the pedestal, hiding his face under a veil, looking down, placing his torch upside down; after Cipriani; second state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Sheet trimmed to plate mark; top corners cut off., and On page numbered 22 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].