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- Published / Created:
- [21 May 1805]
- Call Number:
- 805.05.21.01
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two men at a shop counter in a tea and coffee retail shop using scales to measure out coffee beans and "Two elderly men, whose family resemblance is pronounced, sit directed to the left, behind a counter running diagonally across the design. They are manipulating small scales; one (left) has his hand in a canister of 'Coffee'. Close behind them is the wall, showing the arrangement of a grocer's shop: deep drawers interspersed with shelves on which are sugar-loaves and canisters of tea. The latter are inscribed respectively: 'Hyson', 'Bloom', 'Hyson', '[Souc]hong', 'Congo', 'Bohea'."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Polite grocers of the Strand
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Artist attribution to Andrew Bell and printmaker attribution to Edmund Scott suggested in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.7364, Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right side., "While [Dorothy] George identifies the brothers as John and Richard Twining, [Sir Ambrose] Heal identifies them as John and Aaron Trim, grocers and tea-dealers in the Strand. This is backed up by another plate in the Heal collection that names Aaron and John Trim under their portrait (see Heal,Portraits.194)."--Curator's comments, British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Heal,Portraits.193., and Probably a plate from: Kirby's wonderful and eccentric musuem; or, Magazine of remarkable characters.
- Publisher:
- Published May 21, 1805, by R.S. Kirby, 11 London House Yard, St. Pauls
- Subject (Geographic):
- Strand, The (London, England), England, London, and The Strand.
- Subject (Name):
- Twining, Richard, 1749-1824., Twining, John, 1760-1827., Trim, Aaron, active 1793-1807., and Trim, John, active 1793-1807.
- Subject (Topic):
- Coffee industry, Tea trade, Grocers, Stores, Retail, Brothers, brothers, Scales, Coffee, Tea, and Counters
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > "Brother John and I" the polite grocers of the Strand / [graphic]