LITHOGRAPH, Stirling Cup

Drawing of the cup to be presented to Stirling (see CH73.209) followed by: "PRESENTED / to / Capt. Sir James Stirling, R.N. / First Governor of the Colony of Western Australia / BY THE RELATIVES & FRIENDS OF THE SETTLERS / AT SWAN RIVER, / In testimony of their admiration of the Wisdom, Decision and / Kindness uniformly displayed by him, and of their Gratitude for / his Strenuous Exertions with the Colonial Department for the / Benefit of of that Settlement. / London, May 1833. / The above Inscription is Engraved on this side of the Cup, and on the / opposite side are the Governor's Arms with Naval Emblems. / This Cup will contain four Quarts. - Weight 96oz. / J. Cross, Lithog. 18, Holborn." The reverse side lists the subscribers to the cup. "Those Gentlemen whose names are marked with a Star were the Committee". They are: Bland. Thos. Bedford Row Bickley, Sam. Lloyds Coffee House Bishop, George Jewry Street Crofs, Joseph Holborn Gouger, Robt. New Broad Street Habgood, Thos. Hatten Garden Hinds, Richard Henrietta Street, Brunswick Square Manning, I. High Holborn Richardson, Edward T. Lincolns Inn Fields Turner, George Bishopsgate Street

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