Accession number
PML 145850.101
Creator
Bishop, John, engraver.
Published
[London] : [publisher not identified], 1733.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from item.
Illustrated engraved invitation to dine with the Mystery of Goldsmiths at Goldsmiths-Hall in Foster Lane.
Mounted as item 101 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Illustrated engraved invitation to dine with the Mystery of Goldsmiths at Goldsmiths-Hall in Foster Lane.
Mounted as item 101 into an album of collected prints, broadsides, drawings, and miscellaneous single sheet items, assembled by former owner Joseph Ames and entitled "Emblematical and satirical prints on persons and professions" (PML 145850).
Description
1 print : engraving ; image: 200 x 160 mm; plate mark: 260 x 165 mm; sheet: 280 x 203 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a female figure representing London kneeling at the feet of another female figure identified as Britannia who is shown leaning against a pedastal at right upon which lies the Magna Charta; around them stand the figures of Hercules, Prudence, and Neptune, and below them lie the vanquished figures of Envy, Oppression, and Tyranny. Within a decorative border, with a circular medallion inset below showing three men working at an anvil.
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