SEALS / TEMP: RIC: II / TEMP: HEN: IV & V / TEMP; HEN VI & EDW IV #72-126
£95.00
Original 1838 18 1/2 inch x 12 3/8 inch Hand-Coloured reprint of the 1809 Lithograph Titled SEALS / TEMP: RIC: II / TEMP: HEN: IV & V / TEMP; HEN VI & EDW IV.
Various seals numbered 72-126
Nos. 72 and 84 SANCTA KATERINA, with her wheel.
No. 75 a person praying to the Virgin.
No. 78 represents what was called the marriage of Christ and the Church, the latter representedas a female, seated by the former, and receiving a crown from him: a priest is praying below, the motto a Latin verse, but indistinct.
No. 87 is the Holy Lamb, which was regarded as the symbol of St. John the Evangelist.
Nos. 88, 119, 129 and 130, represent the pelican in her piety, the emblem of parental affection.
No. 89 SANCTA MARGERITA, with her crosier.
No. 104 is St. Peter with his keys, inscribed SAVNCTE PETRI.
No. 106 SANCTA MARIA MAGDALENA, with her box of ointment.
No. 108 a person praying to St. Lawrence, who bears his gridiron, SIGILLVM HUGONIS DE.
No. 133 is a squirrel.
Lettered at the foot of the page: “Drawn, Etched & Published July 8 1809 by Fisher, Hoxton”.
Drawn and Engraved by Thomas Fisher (1772 – 1836). Amateur painter, engraver and early lithographer.
In 1804 a scheme of wall paintings were discovered during restoration works in the Guild Chapel at Stratford-upon-Avon. They depicted scenes such as the Legend of the Discovery of the True Cross, the Last Judgement, Saint George slaying a Dragon, the Dance of Death and the martyrdom of Saint Thomas Beckett. Thomas Fisher, an English antiquary, produced coloured drawings of the frescos when they were discovered and published them in 1807. They were soon afterwards whitewashed or destroyed. In 1809 Fisher re-issued these plates along with facsimiles of original documents he had found during further investigations. Though it was Fisher’s intention to publish letterpress with all his plates, a stipulation of the 1818 Copyright Act regarding legal deposit requirements prevented him from doing so. He got around this by publishing his research in an 1835 edition of The Gentleman’s Magazine, then edited by the antiquary and publisher John Gough Nichols. Two years after Fisher’s death Nichols reprinted a luxury edition of the original plates, finally with letterpress, and featuring new engravings and facsimiles of previously unpublished material.
From ‘Ancient Allegorical, Historical, and Legendary Paintings, In Fresco, Discovered in the Summer of 1804, on the Walls of the Chapel of the Trinity, belonging to the Gilde of the Holy Cross, at Stratford-Upon-Avon’ published by Henry George Bohn, 4 York Street, Covent Garden, London. 1838.
Plate size 14 3/4 inch x 10 1/2 inch
The lithograph is in very good condition. Reverse side blank.
Availability: 1 in stock
