Description
Gabriel Goldney Original Vanity Fair Print 1872
Original Lithograph with the caption at the bottom of the print: Practical
The Goldney family, from Bristol, became clothiers in Chippenham in the sixteenth century and were long afterwards associated with Wiltshire, and particularly the town. An ancestor, Henry Goldney, had also been a member of parliament for Chippenham and was in 1553 appointed the first “Bayliff” of Chippenham. A 17th-century ancestor, also named Gabriel, left bequests in his will to provide “greatcoats for six poor inhabitants”
Published: 28-Dec-1872 Signed by: Unsigned . Dimensions approximately 23cm x 35cm.
