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Printing plate
copper plate The View of the Charity-Children in the Strand

Object number

LDSAL2022.2.140.a

Artist/Designer/Maker

Vertue, George - Engraver

Production date

1715

Material

copper

Technique

Engraving

Dimensions

height: 382mm
width: 656mm

Location

Burlington House -

Content description

Printing plate showing a view of the Charity-Children in the Strand; right plate. The ranks of charity children, of whom there were nearly four thousand, watching the procession described in the inscription, with the north side of the Strand, between Exeter Exchange to Catherine Street, behind them

Inscriptions

Inscription content

Tabula exhibens puellos in Scholis Eleemosynariis educatos [...] / Urbem LONDINUM primum publice ingressus fuerit.

Inscription content

The first HYMN sung by the Charity Children. / Lord give the Queen Thy Saving Health [...] / And with Thee ever Reign. / Allelujah &c.

Inscription content

Geo: Vertue

References

Reference (controlled)

Betti, Chiara. “Lost Treasures Resurface: The Untold Story of the Society of Antiquaries’ Printing Plates.” The Antiquaries Journal 104 (2024): 304–42. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581524000179.
    Printing plate showing a view of the Charity-Children in the Strand; right plate
    The plates were commissioned by Sir Richard Hoare, then Lord Mayor, whose grandson Henry Hoare of Stourhead, gave them to the SAL, which republished them in 1774 (Gough, 1780). The drawing referred to by Vertue in his note on Lord Oxford's impression is presumably a repetition as on the print, he is not credited with owning the original.