Twenty London Livery Companies No. 3 - Engraving by G. Jones - 1814
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Original copper engraving with the shields of twenty livery companies of the City of London, each with its supporters and motto: founders, poulterers, cooks, coopers, tylers and bricklayers, bowyers, fletchers, blacksmiths, joiners, weavers, woolmen, scriveners, fruiterers, plasterers, stationers, embroiderers, upholders, musicians, turners and basketmakers.
Original copper engraving with the shields of twenty livery companies of the City of London, each with its supporters and motto: founders, poulterers, cooks, coopers, tylers and bricklayers, bowyers, fletchers, blacksmiths, joiners, weavers, woolmen, scriveners, fruiterers, plasterers, stationers, embroiderers, upholders, musicians, turners and basketmakers.
The livery companies grew out of the medieval guilds of the City and became corporations under royal charter, responsible for training in the trade and for the regulation of the industry. The sheet is titled at the foot Livery Companies No 3, no. X of the series.
Medium: Copper engraving.
Engraver / publisher: Published by G. Jones, London.
Date: 1814.
Source: London series, no. X, Livery Companies No 3.
Dimensions: 8.1 x 10.1 in (20.7 x 25.7 cm).
Condition: Toned paper, with damp staining spread over the whole sheet, the image included; the shields nevertheless read well.
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Original copper engraving with the shields of twenty livery companies of the City of London, each with its supporters and motto: founders, poulterers, cooks, coopers, tylers and bricklayers, bowyers, fletchers, blacksmiths, joiners, weavers, woolmen, scriveners, fruiterers, plasterers, stationers, embroiderers, upholders, musicians, turners and basketmakers.