LONDON Mansion House Wilson Banquet Lord Mayor

Description: INTERNATIONAL BUYERS:? The shipping rates shown are for '1st Class International Package' with tracking.? Ebay is also promoting their EIS International Shipping program on sellers pages. I do not use this program because it is more expensive, slower, not very transparent, and frustrating to the buyer, if something goes wrong. Do not select it, if ebay does show it as an option. Thank you. Print Specifics: Type of print: Steel engraving - Original antique printYear of printing: not indicated in the print - actual 1841 (Internet sources). Publisher: Joseph Mead, 10 Gough Square, Fleet Street, London. Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair). Dimensions: 8 x 10 inches, (19.5 x 25.5 cm) including blank margins (borders) around the images.Paper weight: 2 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)Reverse side: BlankNote: 1. Green color around the print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed. 2. The print detail is much sharper than the photo of the print. Original narrative: Egyptian Hall, Mansion House, The Wilson Banquet, London : The great banquets of the CORPORATION are given in GUILDHALL : but the hospitality of the LORD MAYOR is displayed in a noble room in the MANSION HOUSE, called the Egyptian Hall. This magnificent apartment, in which public meetings are occasionally allowed to be held, can dine, it is said, about four hundred individuals comfortably, though this number, with the addition of about a hundred attendants, gives the hall a crowded appearance. Here, from time to time, are entertained, with great state and splendour, the chief personages of the country, the ministers of the crown, the judges of the land, foreigners of distinction, and others; while, at set periods, the CORPORATION may be seen dining bodily with its head, and waited upon with all the state ceremony that surrounds the office of LORD MAYOR. His place is a chair of state, or throne, at one end of the hall; and the table at which he presides is, of course, the chief place of honour at the feast. Instead of selecting, for our engraving, one of those grand occasions when the EGYPTIAN HALL is honoured with the presence of illustrious and noble personages, we have taken a more domestic, but very interesting spectacle, which occurred during the mayoralty of MR. ALDERMAN WILSON. It is the BANQUET OF THE WILSON FAMILY, of which some explanation is necessary. MR. ALDERMAN WILSON, who, in 1839, filled the office of Lord Mayor with munificence and taste, is one of the chiefs of a very large tribe of WILSONS, whose locality is the City of London. For a long series of years this family—or rather tribe, for its ramifications are numerous—has held a name and a place, both in character and commerce, amongst the wealthy merchants of the " City." A large number of them, including MR. ALDERMAN WILSON himself, have grown rich in the silk trade; and the WILSON FAMILY is noted, no less for its public and private virtues, than for its wealth and numerous connections. MR. ALDERMAN WILSON signalized his mayoralty, in 1839, with a princely and tasteful hospitality, which excited very general admiration. Yet at the same time there was no waste, no extravagance. Carrying his business habits even into his pleasures, and regulating taste by economy, he was enabled, without being exposed to the charge of wanton expenditure, or of embarrassing any future occupant of the chair by a ruinous example, to throw around his office a splendour and dignity honourable at once to his public and his private character. Martin2001 Satisfaction Guaranteed Policy! Any print purchased from me may be returned for any (or no) reason for a full refund including all postage. Internet seller since 1998.Five-star service.

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