print;
card
- Museum number
- D,3.608
- Description
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Card soliciting a Christmas donation from the 'Gentleman of the Ward Room, [HMS] Bedford then docked at Portsmouth; in cartouche, decorated by a ship sailing within a bay, with a carriage and horses riding on the coast.
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1780-1793 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 95 millimetres
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Width: 157 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Kept with D,3.597-613 in original folder marked: 'Variety. Receipt in Cookery &c'
David Alexander (email June 2021): This card soliciting a Christmas box for the letter carriers has nothing to do with the town of Bedford. 'Ward Room, Bedford' means that it was presented to the officers' mess of the 74 gun warship H.M.S. Bedford, launched in 1775, which must have been in Portsmouth at the time.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- D,3.608
