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The Liverpool tribute to Roscoe

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  • Title: The Liverpool tribute to Roscoe : verbatim reports of the addresses delivered at the Roscoe Festival, held in Liverpool, March 8, 1853; also the proceedings at the opening of the Derby Museum, and the Mayor’s soiree, held on the same day.
  • Publication: Liverpool : Printed and published by T. Baines, Times-Office, No. 12, Castel-Street, 1853.

Catalog Record 

53 R71 853

Acquired July 2017

In commemoration of the centenary of the birthday of Roscoe

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An invitation to an 1853 event, the Roscoe Centenary Festival, sponsored by the city of Liverpool in honor of William Roscoe, Liverpool banker, poet, writer and collector, among the founders of the Liverpool Society for the Encouragement of the Arts of Painting and Design and Whig MP for Liverpool; also first president of the Liverpool Royal Institution. Opponent of the slave trade, he published several pamphlets on the subject and was elected on an anti-slavery platform. After retiring in 1796, he studied botany and opened the Liverpool Botanic Garden in 1802. The invitation shows classical figures representing his many gifts, surrounding a ship, representing his business interests.

  • Title: In commemoration of the centenary of the birthday of Roscoe [graphic] / Mayer inv. ; Worrall lith.
  • Publication: [Liverpool] : [publisher not identified], [1853]

Catalog Record

File 66 853 R81

Acquired July 2017