Dimensions 215 x 140mm. Single leaf broadside, printed on one side only. Slight age yellowing, centre fold, couple of small marginal tears, scattered pin holes.

A fascinating survival from 19th-century Bristol and the early years of the orphanage movement. In 1835, Bristol hosted one of the oldest orphanages in England, the Asylum for Poor Orphan Girls, established in 1795. Around 1834, however, the Prussian George Muller, freshly settled in Bristol, had begun to organise a new orphan house - although the date of establishment is disputed between 1834, 1835 or 1836. He based it initially in his own home, in the parish of St Paul, and in few additional buildings, until all the children were transferred to Ashley Downs in 1849. This broadside is probably, then, one of the earliest recorded traces of Muller's charitable activity.