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- Creator:
- Cole, James, active 1715-1774, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [4 November 1742]
- Call Number:
- File 66 742 C689++
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Stylised representation of the Lord Mayor's procession, framing a blank space in the centre of the sheet; two rows of figures at the top, 7 groups one above the other to either side, and the City Counsel on foot, the Aldermen and Lord Mayor on horseback forming the bottom of the frame."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched above image., "No. 79"--Lower right corner., The 35 numbered sections of the procession zigzag doen the sheet beginning with the 1) Armourers, 2) Leathersellers, 3) Pioneers, 4) Granadiers [sic], [4] Artillery, 5-6) 2d Division, 7-8) 3d Division, 9-10) Salters, 11-12) Salters, 13-14) Slaters, 15-16) Coopers, 17-18) Coopers, 19-20) Band of Petitionsers, 21-22) Kings Trumpets &c., 23-24) Coopers, 25-26) Coopers, 27-28) City Musick, 29-30) Officers, 31-32) Officers, 33-34) City Counsel, Aldermen, Lord Mayor., and Blank space at center of print has been filled in with manuscript poetry given the heading 'Christmas' at top and signed and dated by "John Lewis, 1742" at bottom. The first of the three sections of verse is taken from the second and third cantos of Waller's Of divine love; the other quotations are from the Fourth Eclogue of John Ogilby's seventeenth-century translation of Virgil.
- Publisher:
- Published according to act of Parliament Novemr. the 4th, 1742, and sold by James Cole engraver in Great Kirby Street, Hatton Garden
- Subject (Geographic):
- London (England), England, and London.
- Subject (Name):
- Willimott, Robert, Sir.
- Subject (Topic):
- Officials and employees, City council members, Coopers, Mayors, Municipal officials, Musicians, Occupations, Parades & processions, Soldiers, and British
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The procession of the Lord Mayor of London, 29th of October [graphic].