Invitation Card for the Moray Minstrels

Fred Walker

1871

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Such pseudo-Greek invitation cards, obliquely alluding to John Keats's "Ode on a Grecian Urn," seem to have been something of a specialty that Fred Walker designed for his friend A. J. Lewis's "baccanals," the winter evening entertainments by the Moray Minstrels, 150 artistic amateurs.

  • Poster advertising the Moray Minstrels (January 1865)
  • Invitation Card for the Moray Minstrels (Winter 1866)
  • Invitation Card for Mr. Arthur Lewis (January 1867)