Asia! thy trade, thy silks, and spicy stores [graphic]

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Title: Asia! thy trade, thy silks, and spicy stores [graphic]
Creator: Moore, James, 18th cent., printmaker
Contributor: Amiconi, Giacomo, 1675-1752, artist.
Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, publisher.
Published / Created: [1760?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Sold by I. McArdell at the Golden head in Covent Garden & R. Sayer opposite Fetter Lane, Fleet Street
Abstract: A man in Turkish dress smokes a long pipe as he sits on one barrel as he leans on another. A similarly dressed man, seated next to him, holds an axe. Smoke pours from a brass brazier in the foreground while in the background, a man hlding an umbrella over his head rides a camel. While the rider ignores the scene, the camel looks at the scene of the two men
Description: Title from the first line of verse below image.
Printmaker from Chaloner Smith.
Publication date from an unverified card catalog record. Before 1763 (see Chaloner Smith).
Four lines of verse below image.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. iv; May 1954;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 34.9 x 25.0 cm, on sheet 36 x 26 cm
Language: English

Access: Public
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