The Coronation of His Most Sacred Majesty King George the Fourth

Item author: Sir George Nayler
Item date: 1837
Grant Value: 2,500
Item cost: 5,000
Item date acquired: 2002
Item institution: Westminster Abbey
Town/City: London

Lavish large folio illustrated account of the coronation, possibly the most significant pictorial record of an English coronation ever to appear. There are 45 hand coloured engraved plates and three architectural line drawings after drawings by James Stephanoff, Augustus Pugin, Charles Wild and others. The plates show the elaborate costumes of the main protagonists and two fine views of the ceremony in the Abbey