Manuscript 'Copy of the Inscription Plate on the Coffin of Elizabeth Georgina Adelaide daughter William, Duke of Clarence - afterw<ards> King of England.'

Author: 
Gilbert [GOLDSMITH'S COMPANY; CALLIGRAPHY; WILLIAM IV, KING OF ENGLAND]
Publication details: 
Without date or place, but circa 1822.
£125.00
SKU: 4530

Dimensions of paper roughly five and a half inches by eight. Good, but on paper discoloured with age and with some glue-staining to reverse, which has not shown through. Docketed on reverse. An attractive example of Georgian calligraphy, within a thin black border. At the head are tiny reproductions of five hallmarks, beneath which, in a variety of styles, some fancy, including Italic, Roman and Gothic, 'DEPOSITUM | Illustrissimae Dominae | Elizabethae-Georginae-Adelaidis | FILIAE UNICAE | Illustrissimi Principis Gulielmi-Henrici | Ducis Clarenciae et Sancti Andreae | Fratris Augustissimi et Potentissimi | GEORGII QUARTI DEI GRATIA | Brittanniarum Regis Fidei Defensoris | Quae obiit IV Die Martii MDCCCXXI | AEtatis suae II Mensium et XXII Dierum | [short rule] | Gilbert Fecit. Goldsmith to His Majesty.'