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Print (Broadside) Advertisement for Astronomy Lecture Given by Mr B. Thornton, London, c. 1820

Inventory Number 15150


Acknowledgement: © History of Science Museum, University of Oxford, inv.15150

Item type
Object
Makers
Spragg
Provenance
Purchased from Samuel Gedge, catalogue 22, #115.
Object type
Print
Dimensions
Height: 324mm Width: 195mm
Inventory No
15150
Accession Number
2016-1

Description

Single letterpress printed on flimsy paper by Spragg, Bow Street, Covent Garden for a lecture on astronomy repeated each Friday during Lent at Shade's Concert Room, Soho Square, London. The lectures were 'illustrated with the most beautiful transparent scenes' and 'interspersed with music, vocal and instrumental'. Handwritten at the top "The Last Night April 2d' and with the printed ticket price of 5s overwritten at the bottom with a 3.