1. Add MS 47896
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 47896
- Title:
- PITT FUNERAL DRAWINGS, together with notes. The drawings, in penand-ink, some of them (ff. 3b, 4, 8, 10b) coloured in wash, are of banners, escutcheons, etc., used at the funerals of:-(1) William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, 9 June 1778. ff. 3b-8;-(2) William Pitt, the younger, Prime Minister, 22 Feb. 1806. ff. 9-12. They are probably the work of Thomas Sharpe (d. 1825), heraldic painter, whose ledgers, together with those of his successor George Bishop, 1774-1839, are now in the Guildhall Lib...
- Scope & Content:
- George Sutcliffe: Bound: 20th cent. Thomas Sharpe, heraldic painter, of London: Drawings of banners, etc., by (?): 1778, 1806. Francis Longinus Sangorski: Bound: 20th cent. Heraldry: Drawings of banners, etc., by T. Sharpe (?), for the funerals of the elder and younger Pitt: 1778, 1806. Fune...
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Languages:
- English
- Date Range:
- c 1778-1806
- Extent:
- 1 item