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Author/Creator:Saint Giles without Cripplegate Parish Church (London, England)
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Title:To the natives of the parish of St Giles's Cripplegate, London ... [graphic] / J. Sturt sc.
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Publication:[London] : [The Church stewards], [ca. 1756]
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Physical Description:1 print : etching ; sheet 35 x 20.5 cm
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Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
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Call Number: File 646 17-- D952+
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Status:Not Checked Out
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Provenance:Bernard Quaritch; July 2015.
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Digital version
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Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
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Notes:Title from first lines of text etched below image.
Date of publication based on the manuscript signatures of the churchwardens and overseers, which are dated 1756-1757.
Text below title begins: Sir, you are desired to meet the rest of your parishioners on [blank] the [blank] of [blank] at [blank] ...
At top of plate, the arms of Sir Benjamin Maddow and the text: Ex dono Benj. Maddox Barrti. June 1709.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three edges.
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Summary:An invitation to the ancient ceremony of beating the bounds, with a large view of St. Giles's from the south (figures include a strolling couple, a playing boy, and a cripple with his dog) and a vignette of the church. The form has blanks left for the signatures of the stewards as well as the date (day, month, and the two numbers for the decade) and place of dining to be written in by hand.
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Variant and related titles:Sir, you are desired to meet the rest of your parishioners on [blank] the [blank] of [blank] at [blank]
- Format:Visual Material
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Subjects:Saint Giles without Cripplegate Parish Church (London, England)
Rites and ceremonies--England--London.
London (England)--Social life and customs.
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Genre/Form:Annotations (Provenance)--18th century.
Etchings--England--London--1797.
Blank forms.
Invitations.
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Also listed under:Sturt, John, 1658-1730, printmaker.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/12494849