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Admission ticket to Westminster Hall, for the Coronation Banquet of King George IV
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Admission ticket to Westminster Hall, for the Coronation Banquet of King George IV
- Object:
Print
- Place of origin:
England (Made)
- Date:
1821 (Made)
- Artist/Maker:
Unknown (Maker)
- Materials and Techniques:
Compound plate printing, with stamped blind border
- Credit Line:
Given by Miss E. Partridge
- Museum number:
E.931-1935
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level C, case GG, shelf 68, box B (i)
This invitation card was for the banquet in Westminster Hall immediately after the Coronation. Three hundred and twelve male guests sat down to dine, watched by the peeresses in the gallery. Most of the blocks used for printing this card had been used for the invitation to the Coronation in Westminster Abbey. [See E.930-1935.] However, on that card, a different stamped border pattern and slightly differing lettering appear
The `Dobbs’ whose name is stamped in the border was H. Dobbs. His firm (founded in 1803) pioneered the use of decorative blind stamping for decorating invitation cards. Later in the 19th century he used this process to provide ornament for valentine cards and other greeting cards.
