You are desired to Accompany the Corps of [blank] to the Parish Church of [blank] on [blank] next being the [blank] of [blank] at [blank] of the Click in the [blank] precisely, And bring this Ticket with you [graphic].

[late 17th or 18 cent.]

1 print : engraving ; 29 x 22 cm

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Fully adhered to early 20th-century backing board. Removed from plain black early 20th-century 3/8-in. wooden frame with framer's ticket "Made by Alden & Co. Ltd., Picture Frame Manufacturers, 35, Corn-Market Street and 14, Broad Street, Oxford. Workshops: 14, Broad Street." Frame presumably to be discarded.

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Ordered from Dean Cooke, Manuscripts & Rare Books, D9535, 2021-10-06, Cat. "First words: catalogue of manuscripts & rare books to be exhibited by Dean Cooke Rare Books Ltd on stand A7 at the firsts fair Saatchi Gallery London 21 - 24 October 2021", item #47 From dealer's description: "47. [FUNERAL INVITATION] Engraved funeral ticket 'You are desired to Accompany the Corps'. [Circa 1700]. Single sheet (292 mm x 220 mm). Framed by Alden & Co. Ltd. 35, Corn-Market Street and 14, Broad Street, Oxford (probably early 20th century). The ticket has been removed from the frame for inspection, and fortunately, the sheet has been pasted to board by the framer. Engraved plate mark, but no watermark visible. This late 17th- or early-18th-century engraved funeral ticket features the grim reaper, a skeleton, trumpeting angels, and a funeral cortège. The text reads: "You are desired to Accompany the Corps of [blank] to the Parish Church of [blank] on [blank] next being the [blank] of [blank] at [blank] of the Clock in the [blank] precisely, And bring this Ticket with you". Given the blanks do not have the usual manuscript additions it seems likely this example is from an undertaker's stock of blanks."

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