Londina Illustrata. Graphic and Historical Memorials of Monasteries, Churches, Chapels, Schools, Charitable Foundations, Palaces, Halls, Courts, Processions, Places of Early Amusement, and Modern Present Theatres, in the Cities and Suburbs of London and Westminster, Volume 1
Wilkinson, Robert
1819-1825
Prints, Printed Papers, and Tracts, of the Frost Fair of 1683-84.
A Wonderfull Fair, or a Fair of Wonders. , —Large whole-sheet Print; the upper part engraven on copper-plate, with the above title over it; the lower a long poetical description of about lines, in letter-press in columns. The view is taken from the south edge of the river looking up to Essexbuildings and the Temple-gardens, hall, church, &c., which form the opposite back ground. Under each group of figures is added in words the action which they are intended to represent. The whole of the engraving is somewhat in the style of Michael Burghers, though considerably inferior.— Vol. xxvii.—. . Slightly Imperfect. | ||||
REPRESENTATION ICE THAMES LONDON, CHARLES —Whole-sheet copper-plate, looking horizontally from the and to . Title in an oval Cartouche at the top of the view, within the frame, the alphabetical references below outside; beneath which is ——Vol. xxvii.-. There is a variation of this Print in the , divided with common ink into partitions, as if to be used as cards, and numbered in the margin in type, with Roman numerals, in series of each, and extra. | ||||
. Small folio copper-plate, representing an ancient man in an oriental habit holding a scroll in his left hand marked and with the other pointing to the frozen Thames on which the usual pastimes are taking place, with several names engraven beneath. Beyond appears London within a wall. The title is on a scroll above the figure and view, and beneath the print are the following verses.
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Printed for Iames Norris, at the King's armes wout Temple Barr.— | ||||
-, —Whole-sheet copper-plate print, measuring inches by /. Dedicated to Sir Henry Hulse, Knt. and Lord Mayor, by James Moxon the Engraver.—,[a] , Vol. viii. after page . | ||||
. Whole-sheet Broadside, measuring inches by , with a large and coarse engraving on wood representing the sports, tents, and buildings, on the ice, taken from opposite the Temple, which appears in the back-ground: beneath are the title and lines of very inferior verse.— | ||||
, , —A Wood Cut.—[b] London: . mo. A small volume of coarse and worthless narratives. . [c] -. Half-sheet folio. | ||||
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London: . Half-sheet, small folio, pages of letter-press. | ||||
Half-sheet, small folio, a Poem of lines on pages of letter-press.[d] He is also in possession of another relique of this Frost, derived from the same collection, of far greater interest and curiosity. It consists of a quartersheet of coarse Dutch paper, on which, within a type border measuring inches by inches, are the names of ICE , . ..These names express King Charles the ; his brother James, Duke of York, afterwards James II.; Queen Katherine, Infanta of Portugal; Mary D'Este, sister of Francis Duke of Modena, James's Duchess; the Princess Anne, daughter of the Duke of York, afterwards Queen Anne; and her husband, Prince George of Denmark. The last name was doubtless dictated by the humour of the King, and signifies Jack in the Cellar; alluding to the pregnant situation of Anne of Denmark. Mr. Upcott also possesses another paper, likewise derived from the Evelyn collection, Printed on the Ice -, bearing the names of Henry, Earl of Clarendon, son of the Chancellor; Flora, Countess of Clarendon; and their son Edward, Lord Cornbury.[e] The rapid disappearance of this Frost has been already noticed; but even on Evelyn observes, that though the weather were set in to an absolute thaw and rain, the Thames was still frozen. On he states, that and even on there was of it. The Spring which followed he records to have been excessively hot and dry, with such a drought as no man in England had known. | ||||
Footnotes: [a] British Topography, by Richard Gough, Lond. 1780. 4to. Vol. i. p. 731. [b] Ibid. Vol. i. p. 732 [c] Ibid. Vol. i. p. 784*.—The two articles ensuing are also derived from the same authority. [d] In this poem there occur the following lines relating to Charles II. viewing the frozen Thames from Whitehall. Then draw the King, who on his leads doth stray,To see the throng as on a Lord Mayor's day,And thus unto his nobles pleas'd to say:With these men on this Ice I'de undertakeTo cause the Turk all Europe to forsake;An army of these men, arm'd and completeWould soon the Turk in Christendom defeat. [e] Another paper of this kind, also from the same collection, is mentioned by Mr. Bray in a note to Evelyn's Diary, Jan. 24th, 1683-84, with the names of Monsr. et Made. Justel. Printed on the River of Thames being frozen. In the 36th Year of King Charles the II. February the 5th, 1683.—Henry Justel was Secretary and Councillor to the King of France, and came to England on the revocation of the Edict of Nantes, when he was appointed Keeper of the King's Library. He died in 1693. |
