[Letterhead for Blundell's School, Tiverton] [graphic] / W. Hogarth delt.
- Published/Created:
- [London?] :
[publisher not identified],
[not before 1798] - Physical Description:
- 1 print : etching on wove paper ; sheet 119 x 154 mm
- Notes:
- Title devised by cataloger.
Anna Marie Ireland's signature "A.M.I. fet." burnished forom lower right?
A copy of: Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 104. - Abstract:
- Copy of a design for the letterhead use for 1726 an invitation to a dinner for former pupils of William Rayner at Blundell's School, Tiverton. The vignette shows, on the left, small boys reading and, on the right, in front of a bookcase, Minerva pointing a boy towards the school while another boy assists Mercury as he waters a tree growing a pot. The frame around the vignette is topped by a fountain referring to the motto: In patriam populumque fluxit. In a ribbon below the image is another motto: Utrique unus et ex uno stemmate surgis honos. Without the text of the invitation engraved below.
- Topics:
- Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Mercury--(Roman deity),--depicted.
Perrins, Charles William Dyson,--1864-1958--Ownership.
Steevens, George,--1736-1800--Ownership. - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Engravings--England--London--1798.
Letterheads. - Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Call Number:
- Folio
75
H67
800 v. 1
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize) - Orbis Record:
- 12446631
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr26060h
- OID:
- 16193746
- PID:
- digcoll:4048109
