Original copper engraving with the shields of twenty livery companies of the City of London, with their supporters and mottoes: glaziers, horners, farriers, paviors, loriners, apothecaries, shipwrights, spectacle-makers, clock-makers, glovers, comb-makers, felt-makers, frame-work knitters, silk-throwsters, carmen and woodmongers, pin-makers, needle-makers, gardeners, soap-makers and tin-plate-workers.
Original copper engraving with the shields of twenty livery companies of the City of London, with their supporters and mottoes: glaziers, horners, farriers, paviors, loriners, apothecaries, shipwrights, spectacle-makers, clock-makers, glovers, comb-makers, felt-makers, frame-work knitters, silk-throwsters, carmen and woodmongers, pin-makers, needle-makers, gardeners, soap-makers and tin-plate-workers.
These City corporations, heirs of the medieval guilds, regulated by royal charter the apprenticeship and the standards of each trade. The sheet is titled at the foot Livery Companies No 4, no. XI of the series.
Medium: Copper engraving.
Engraver / publisher: Published by G. Jones, London.
Date: 1814.
Source: London series, no. XI, Livery Companies No 4.
Dimensions: 8.1 x 10.1 in (20.7 x 25.7 cm).
Condition: Toned paper, with scattered damp staining, above all at the corners; the plate mark clean and well printed.