Printing plate
copper plate
The View of the Charity-Children in the Strand
Object number
LDSAL2022.2.141
Artist/Designer/Maker
Vertue, George - Engraver
Production date
1715
Material
copper
Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
height: 384mm
width: 660mm
width: 660mm
Location
Burlington House -
Content description
Printing plate showing a view of the Charity-Children in the Strand; left 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
The View of the CHARITY-CHILDREN, in the Strand, upon the VII of July, MDCCXIII [...] / The Like View of the Charity Children was presented to his Majesty King George, on the south side of St Pauls, when he made his Publick Entry into the City of London, upon the XX of September, MDCCXIV.
Inscription content
The second HYMN sung by the Charity Children. / Glory to GOD, who Reigns on High [...] / Resembling These Above / Allelujah &c.
Inscription content
delin et Sculpsit 1715.
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; left 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.
