Horatio Nelson Interest: An original engraved admission tic...

Hammer

£1,450

Horatio Nelson Interest: An original engraved admission ticket to the ‘Funeral of the Late Vice Admiral Horatio Viscount Nelson’ admitting the bearer to the Procession of Nelson's funeral from The Admiralty to St Paul’s Cathedral issued to and inscribed in ink ‘George Matcham Esq Nephew of the late Viscount Nelson,’ (The son of Nelson’s sister Catherine), signed by Isaac Heard (The Garter King at Arms), with black wax seal, and numbered 416, printed with manuscript insertions, 155 x 180mm., framed together with a contemporary monochrome etched and engraved print of Lord Nelson’s Funeral Car and a poem by William Thomas Fitzgerald Esq., London published Jan. 9 1806 by G. Andrews Charing Cross, 185x234mm, mounted, framed and glazed with conservation plexiglass. Richard Martin Gallery label verso with price £4,650.