Fores's hunting envelopes [graphic].

Creator:

Leech, John, 1817-1864, printmaker.

Published/Created:

London :
Published by Messrs. Fores at their sporting & fine print repository & frame manufactury, 41 Piccadilly, corner of Sackville Street,
[1840]

Physical Description:

1 print : lithograph, hand-colored, on wove paper ; sheet 91 x 134 mm.

Notes:

Title from text above image.
Other prints in the series attributed to John Leech and dated 1840. See British Museum onlne catalogue.
"No. 4."

Abstract:

Number four in a series of prints published by Fores that parodies the infamous Mulready stationery released by the British Post Office in 1840. Each of the prints is numbered and centers on a different theme, e.g. Fores's military envelope, Fores's musical envelope, Fores's comic envelopes, Fores's alderman envelopes, etc.

Topics:

Fishing & hunting gear.
Horseback riding.
Hunting.
Postal stationery.

Topics:

Jobbins, John Richard, d. 1866, printer.
Messrs. Fores (Firm), publisher.
Mulready, William,--1786-1863.

Language:

English

Genre:

Etchings--England--London--1840.
Satires (Visual works)--England--1840.

Format:

Image

Rights:

Open Access
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Call Number:

841.00.00.28

Orbis Record:

9902216

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Local Record Number:

lwlpr14031

OID:

10971675

PID:

digcoll:975912