- Museum number
- C,2.1274-1282
- Description
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Tickets and invitations to dinners, and a notice. Text within [] indicates hand-written notes:
C,2.1274: Ticket, "Dinner at the Mansion Houe, April 19th 1802. The Right Honble Sir John Eamer Lord Mayor"; with two dancing women below, with putti playing instruments and hanging garlands, a table dressed with candles, silverware and fruit to the left. "Corbould sc 37 Foster Lane".
C,2.1275: Ticket, "This Ticket Admits [Countess of Glasgow] to the Dinner at Guildhall, on Tuesday the 9th November 1790, The Rt Honble John Boydell, Lord Mayor; G. M. Macaulay & R. C. Glyn Esqr Sheriffs", in octagonal frame, around which "[Geo Macaulay / John Boydell Mayor / RCGlyn / Robt Bullcock]". "Clark sculp Moorfields". Printed in red ink. On verso a vignette of a man seated painting picturesque scene of a country church, in roundel.
C,2.1276: Same ticket as C,2.1275, for "[Depy Smith]", printed in black ink.
C,2.1277: Invitation, "The Lord Mayor requests the honor of [Mr Alderman Boydell's] company to meet the Most Noble Marquis Cornwallis at the Mansion House, to Dinner, on Saturday the 5th April 1794, at 5 o'Clock precisely", in roundel of palm and laurel with shield, sword, and sceptre at top, and vignettes in four corners of allegorical figures. "Clark & Norris sculpt Moorfields".
C,2.1278: Ticket, the same as C,2.1277, but lettered "Mansion House, The Ball, April 21st 1794, The Right Honble Paul Le Mesurier Lord Mayor". Printed in red ink.
C,2.1279: Ticket, "Admit one person to the Dinner at Guildhall, on Tuesday the 9th Novr 1802. The Right Honble Charle Prices MP Lord Mayor. Richard Welch & James Alexander Esqrs Sheriffs". Signed by the chairman and stamped with seal. At top a large illustration of a owman seated at richly laid table, being presented platter of fruit by a naked boy, other boys to the right carrying wheat, games, and squeezing grapes into a bowl; the woman wearing castellated crown, a sword and sceptre by her feet, and holding shield that squashes the head of a dragon. "R. Corbould delin / J. Corbould sc 37 Foster Lane".
C,2.1280: Ticket, "Mansion House. The DInner, April 1st 1793 / The Rt Hon. Sir Jas. Sanderson knt Lord Mayor". With four putti dancing in oval of laurel, flanked by figures with garlands and playing the lyre; a sword and sceptre at top. "Clark sculp Moorfields". Printed in red ink.
C,2.1281: Note: "[The dinner at Guildhall Novr 9. is between the Lord Maor and the 2 sheriffs there is a platform to raise the dining plan / one end is Lord Mayor presiding the other the 2 sheriffs...]"
C,2.1282: Notice, printed on large sheet, "It is particularly requested that, in proceeding to Dinner, the following arrangement may be observed for the general accommodation of the company. / That the Noblemen, ambassadors, and foreigners of distinction, do immediately follow the Lord Mayor, then the Aldermen with their Ladies, and after them the Remainder of the Visitors; by which means every Lady and Gentleman will be equally well seated, without any inconvenience, as additional space has been provided for that purpose on the present occasion".
- Production date
- 1790-1802
- Dimensions
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Height: 140 millimetres
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Height: 330 millimetres
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Width: 387 millimetres (largest)
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Width: 99 millimetres (smallest)
- Curator's comments
- Loose, within mount labelled by Banks "Dinners (Mansion House) &c". With C,2.1252-1263
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- C,2.1274-1282
