Dinner Given to 15,000 Person on Parker's Piece, Cambridge in Honour of the Coronation of Queen Victoria (after Richard Bankes Harraden)
Andrew R. Grieve (fl.1825 - 1849)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1838
Materials
Lithograph on paper
Measurements
388 x 530 mm
Place of origin
London
Order this imageCollection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 513985.2
Summary
Print, coloured lithograph, proof copy, Dinner Given to 15,000 Person on Parker's Piece, Cambridge in Honour of the Coronation of Queen Victoria (after Richard Bankes Harraden) by A. R. Grieve (fl.mid 19th century). Dinner Given to 15,000 Person on Parker's Piece, Cambridge in the presence of 25,000 Spectators, Thursday 28th June 1838, in Honour of the Coronation of Her Most Gracious Majesty, Queen Victoria. To Commemorate which unrivalled Public Festival this Print is dedicated to the subscribers, by Thos Hallack, Honorary Secretary. Drawn by R.B. Harraden, on stone by A.R. Grieve, Firth Lithog, 7 St Michael's Alley, Cornhill, London. 60 long trestle table and benches radiating out from a stepped circular platform with crowds of spectators. Mounted on paper.
Provenance
Bequeathed to the National Trust by Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) with the house and the rest of the contents.
Makers and roles
Andrew R. Grieve (fl.1825 - 1849), engraver (printmaker) after Richard Bankes Harraden (1778 - Cambridge 1862), artist