Invitation to a dinner with officers of the Charity Schools of Christ Church, scheduled for 5 June 1828 at Highbury Tavern
Alternative Title:
Christ Church Spitalfields, Charity Schools and Sir, the favor of your company is requested to dine with the Treasurer & Trustees of the Charity Schools of Christ Church
Description:
Title from item., Text continues with the engraved name of "Edwd. Meyrick, Esqr. Treasurer," beneath which the names of twelve "Stewards" are listed in two columns., Entirely engraved; illustrated with a view of the facade of the school at head of sheet, and a smaller depiction at bottom of a breastfeeding woman with a boy and a girl at her sides, all standing on a pedestal upon which "No. [blank]" is engraved., "Dinner at 1/2 past 3 for 4 o'clock precisely"--Lower left corner., "Tickets 12 s."--Lower right corner., Blank space following the engraved text "No." at bottom has been filled in with the manuscript number "85.", Mounted to 27.1 x 21.1 cm., and Mounted opposite page 386 in volume 3 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Malcolm, J.P. Londinium redivivum, or, An antient history and modern description of London.
"Collège Saint-Marc - Alexandrie (Egypte). -7. Salle des Professeurs" The staff room in the Collège Saint Marc contains many individual wooden desks with lamps and chairs. It is a spacious room with high ceilings.
Advertisement for a girls' school in south London. An engraved vignette at the head of the sheet displays girls listening to a reading, while a vignette at the foot depicts a white and a black child embracing, presumably an indication of the proprietors' abolitionist sympathies
Description:
Title from item., Approximate date based on style of dress., Handbill with engraved text and engraved vignettes., Sheet trimmed, leaving thread margins., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and England.
Subject (Topic):
Hotels, Schools, Girls, Education, School children, Race relations, and Reading
A room featuring a microscope and two mounted butterfly specimens in a box. An open book is to the lower right. In the background is a large bookcase filled with books, and various instruments about. To the right of the shelf is an open window looking out onto an open field, some trees, and a distant windmill.
Subject (Name):
Uppingham School Natural Science Society
Subject (Topic):
Books, Microscopes, Nature, Schools, Scientists, Societies, and Windows
Print shows a building at Harrow with four figures in the foreground and five in the distance
Description:
Title etched below image., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate from: The history of the colleges of Winchester, Eton, and Westminster. London : Printed for and published by R. Ackermann ..., MDCCCXVI [1816]., Joseph Constantine Stadler was a German painter and engraver who worked in London., Window mounted to 36 x 51 cm., Mounted opposite page 3 (leaf numbered '31' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan., and Imperfect; imprint statement partially worn away from sheet.
Publisher:
Pubd. June 1, 1816, at 101 Strand, for R. Ackermann's History of Harrow School
Berthoud, H. (Henry), active 19th century, printmaker
Published / Created:
[not after 1864]
Call Number:
Print00955
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., Place of publication derived from language of text., Date derived from printmaker's accepted date of death., Inscribed in margin top left: No.134., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
France.
Subject (Name):
Ecole polytechnique (France). and C.H.U. Pitié-Salpêtrière (Paris, France).
Subject (Topic):
Hospitals, Schools, City & town life, Universities & colleges, and Gates
"Missão Catolica do Bailundo (Angola)" Native men are sitting on bench desks facing the front of what appears to be a school room. Three teachers are in the front.
