3-043-721 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Casket of Address presented to Baroness Burdett-Coutts by the City of London, 1872. '...a handsome gold casket...[to mark] the admission of this estimable lady to the freedom of the city of London...[It contained] a copy of the resolution passed by the Court of Common Council, at the recommendation of the Markets' Committee...[expressing] sincere thanks to her Ladyship for her noble gift of Columbia Market to the poor of the East-End...The casket (manufactured by Messrs. Hunt and Roskell)...[depicts] different types of the charitable actions for which her Ladyship is so well known...[ie] engraved tableaux of acts of mercy: "Feeding the Hungry," "Giving Drink to the Thirsty," "Clothing the Naked," "Visiting the Captive," "Lodging the Homeless," "Visiting the Sick," and "Burying the Dead." The eighth panel in front bears the arms and supporters of her Ladyship, chased in high relief and enamelled in the heraldic colours. Supporting the box are four angelic figures representing Prudence, Justice, Temperance, and Fortitude. The lid, which is domed, with a scroll ornament at each corner, bears on the front an engraving of a fishing scene, in allusion to the establishment of the fish market...The City arms and supporters form the apex of the lid.' From "Illustrated London News", 1872.