Sir Richard Phillips lithogragh -- The Admiralty, the War Office of the Treasury

Description: 8 3/4 inches x 7 inches. color lithograph print early 19th century. Published by Richard Phillips Aug 1804, 71 St. Paul Church Yard.Phillips was located at Church Yard from 1795 - 1807. Wood frame. glass.solid. VG condition. frame shows some wear. a few small spots on the print (sky) and some margin fading.overall color is excellent.spot lower margin below title and publisher. The original is housed in the British Museum. Print was made by J. Pass and published by Richard Phillips. View in St James's Park with the buildings from the Admiralty to the Treasury forming the background, showing the telegraph arms on the Admiralty roof (a new-fangled French invention, according to Adams), the park is crowded with soldiers marching in formation in the background and many more figures in foreground including soldiers talking to women and children playing; illustration from Modern London. 1804. Original: Etching and engraving. bio: Bookseller and print publisher. 1789, opened a hosier's shop in Leicester diversifying, in 1790, into stationery, books, prints, etc.; 1792, founded the Leicester Herald; 1793, imprisoned for selling copies of Tom Paine's Rights of Man; by 1796 at St Paul's Churchyard where he established the Monthly Magazine, writing anti-government articles himself under the signature "Common Sense"; 1806 moved to Little Bridge Street, Blackfriars; published large numbers of school books, popular manuals, etc., and in 1807, founded the short-lived Antiquary's Magazine and was elected sheriff of London; 1808, knighted

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