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Manuscript

1880s (made)
Artist/Maker
Skidmore, Francis Alexander (The Younger) (writer)
Place of origin
Coventry (made)

Handwritten letter on a piece of blue ruled paper with faint red lines and torn at the bottom.

Object details

Categories
Manuscripts
Architecture
Royalty
Object type
Manuscript
Materials and techniques
Handwriting in pen and ink on paper
Ink
Paper
Handwriting
Brief description
Handwritten petition to Her Majesty Queen Victoria by Francis Skidmore, 1880s
Physical description
Handwritten letter on a piece of blue ruled paper with faint red lines and torn at the bottom.
Dimensions
  • Height: 11.4cm
  • Width: 19.8cm
Marks and inscriptions
'to the carrying out of his ideas as perfectly as / Mr Skidmore / That your Petitioner from a long illness has been incapacitated from the travelling necessary to his vocation / That an Influential memorial to the First Lord of the Treasury for a Pension from the Queen's Bounty / in consideration of the Prince Consort Memorial & / numerous works of Art on which he has been engaged / The reply from the First Lord was that it should be / attended to in ''due course'' Twelve months have passed [illegible inscription because the bottom of the petition is torn off and missing].
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of the Friends of the National Libraries
Object history
The provenance is the grand-daughter of Francis Skidmore.
Historical context
The petition quotes Sir George Gilbert Scott from his Personal and Professional Recollections (1879). See the references tab. In the 1880s, Skidmore was disabled and knocked down by a carriage and was unable to do the travelling necessary for his career. It is to this infirmity that he refers in this petition to Queen Victoria.
Subjects depicted
Petitions
The Albert Memorial
Bibliographic references
  • Scott, George Gilbert. Personal and Professional Recollections London: S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1879.
  • Jones, Huw and Wickham, Annette. Francis Skidmore. A Coventry Craftsman. Coventry Arts and Heritage, 2003, 17 p.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.396:2-2006

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Record createdOctober 16, 2007
Record URL
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