Limomachia. : By His Majesty's royal letters patent, the new-invented machine for taking likenesses, by which the usual objections to the art, viz. time, trouble, and expence, are entirely removed, by Raphael Pinion, portrait-grinder, at his manufactory, in Liecester square, opposite the aequestrian statue of the King

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Lewis Walpole Library > Limomachia. : By His Majesty's royal letters patent, the new-invented machine for taking likenesses, by which the usual objections to the art, viz. time, trouble, and expence, are entirely removed, by Raphael Pinion, portrait-grinder, at his manufactory, in Liecester square, opposite the aequestrian statue of the King

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Title: Limomachia. : By His Majesty's royal letters patent, the new-invented machine for taking likenesses, by which the usual objections to the art, viz. time, trouble, and expence, are entirely removed, by Raphael Pinion, portrait-grinder, at his manufactory, in Liecester square, opposite the aequestrian statue of the King
Creator: Pinion, Raphael
Published / Created: [between 1780 and 1788?]
Publication Place: London and England London
Publisher: Prinion
Abstract: A man sits on the right of a tracing machine, his head caught in a vice; beside him sits an old woman. On the opposite end, a man in gown works the mechanism
Description: Caption title.
Advertisement with an etching of the device in action above the caption title.
Also advertised are "portraitures in worsted, human-hair, and hot-poker."
For further information, consult library staff.
Provenance: Maggs Bros.; October 2025.
Extent: 1 sheet ([1] page] : 41 x 26 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

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Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: File 69 780 P654+

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Genre: Watermarks (Paper)
Etchings
Material: 1 illustration ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: text
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain.
Subject (Topic): Inventions
Portrait prints
Inventors
Subjects: Inventions > Great Britain
Portrait prints
Inventions
Inventors

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