![Aldenham School [in pencil to right.]](jpegs/22568.jpg)
Aldenham School [in pencil to right.]
Etched by Wallace Hester [in pencil to left.]
[n.d. c.1930s.]
Etching with watermark in top left-hand corner of paper. Plate 203 x 266mm. 8 x 10½". Soiling along left-hand edge.
Aldenham School, an independent school in Hertfordshire, with crest and motto below image. The School was founded in 1597 by Richard Platt, a proprietor of a London brewery and Master of the Brewer's Company in 1576 and 1581. In 1596 Queen Elizabeth I granted him letters patent to build "the Free Grammar School and Almshouses" at Aldenham; the foundation stone was laid in 1597.
[Ref: 22568] £70.00
[n.d. c.1930s.]
Etching with watermark in top left-hand corner of paper. Plate 203 x 266mm. 8 x 10½". Soiling along left-hand edge.
Aldenham School, an independent school in Hertfordshire, with crest and motto below image. The School was founded in 1597 by Richard Platt, a proprietor of a London brewery and Master of the Brewer's Company in 1576 and 1581. In 1596 Queen Elizabeth I granted him letters patent to build "the Free Grammar School and Almshouses" at Aldenham; the foundation stone was laid in 1597.
[Ref: 22568] £70.00