拍品 62
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GEORGE IV (1762-1830), King of Great Britain and Ireland, King of Hanover. Letter signed (at head, 'George R'), Carlton House, 12 July 1821, formally commanding his Lord Chancellor, John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, to attend his coronation on 19 July, printed document achieved in manuscript, countersignature of Lord Howard of Effingham, one page, folio, on a bifolium; [with] Two printed tickets for the ceremonies of the coronation in, respectively, Westminster Abbey and Westminster Hall, numbered in manuscript '33' and '1015', both tickets endorsed and signed by Lord Eldon 'Admit Mr Scott the Chancellor's Grandson & Heir apparent', the Abbey ticket endorsed 'Poet's Corner', the tickets comprising a lithographed image of the King enthroned within a decorative background, embossed heraldic border, 240 x 262 mm, separately framed and glazed (3)
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GEORGE IV (1762-1830), King of Great Britain and Ireland, King of Hanover. Letter signed (at head, 'George R'), Carlton House, 12 July 1821, formally commanding his Lord Chancellor, John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, to attend his coronation on 19 July, printed document achieved in manuscript, countersignature of Lord Howard of Effingham, one page, folio, on a bifolium; [with] Two printed tickets for the ceremonies of the coronation in, respectively, Westminster Abbey and Westminster Hall, numbered in manuscript '33' and '1015', both tickets endorsed and signed by Lord Eldon 'Admit Mr Scott the Chancellor's Grandson & Heir apparent', the Abbey ticket endorsed 'Poet's Corner', the tickets comprising a lithographed image of the King enthroned within a decorative background, embossed heraldic border, 240 x 262 mm, separately framed and glazed (3)

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GEORGE IV (1762-1830), King of Great Britain and Ireland, King of Hanover. Letter signed (at head, 'George R'), Carlton House, 12 July 1821, formally commanding his Lord Chancellor, John Scott, 1st Earl of Eldon, to attend his coronation on 19 July, printed document achieved in manuscript, countersignature of Lord Howard of Effingham, one page, folio, on a bifolium; [with] Two printed tickets for the ceremonies of the coronation in, respectively, Westminster Abbey and Westminster Hall, numbered in manuscript '33' and '1015', both tickets endorsed and signed by Lord Eldon 'Admit Mr Scott the Chancellor's Grandson & Heir apparent', the Abbey ticket endorsed 'Poet's Corner', the tickets comprising a lithographed image of the King enthroned within a decorative background, embossed heraldic border, 240 x 262 mm, separately framed and glazed (3)
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George IV's attitude to his father's Lord Chancellor was transformed from hostility to affection upon his assumption of the Regency: he dubbed him 'Old Bags' (for the bag in which he carried the Great Seal - see lot 59) and on 7 July 1821, only five days before the present letter, conferred on him the earldom that he had previously refused.