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001 $ 25/363
003 $ UK-LoRAA
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
245 1 0 $a Farewell dinner to J.P. Kemble Esqr. on his retirement from the stage admit [blank].
260 # # $a London $b s.n. $c [1817]
300 # # $a 1 printed sheet: $b illus.; $c 300 x 210 mm.
500 # # $a An engraved ticket to the retirement dinner for John Philip Kemble. At the top, a portrait of Kemble's head in profile to the right; the text is surrounded by garlands; at the base a banner with a quotation from Hamlet, "The observed, all observers" woven through a lyre, a mask above. Beneath the banner is the printmaker, 'Silvester sc. / 27 Strand'. The name 'Westmacott Esqre' is inscrbed in ink in the line after the printed 'admit' and the names 'Urquhart & Walker', the names of the secretaries of the committee that organised the event, inscribed in ink below.

Pasted to the ticket is a printed label: 'Note - The Dinner will be celebrated at the Freemason's / Tavern, on Friday, the 27th June Instant. Dinner on Table at / Seven o'Clock precisely.' Handwritten in pencil at the top of this label is, '1817. Invitation to My Grandfater / afterwards Sir R. Westmacott'.
561 # # $a Part of a set of pamphlets from the library of Richard Westmacott RA presented by Mrs Rodwell in 1937 (see RA Annual Report for 1937, p. 55).
561 # # $a Bound (20) in vol. VI of a set of pamphlets from the library of Richard Westmacott RA.
563 # # $a In green quarter-bound leather; spine with two red leather labels, both lettered in gilt, the first as 'Miscellaneous' and the second as 'Vol. / VI'.
600 1 4 $a Kemble, John Philip
700 1 # $a Silvester, Richard William $e printmaker $e engraver
700 1 # $a Rodwell $e donor
700 1 # $a Westmacott, Richard $e previous owner
700 1 # $a Westmacott, Richard $e previous owner