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Creator
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist, printmaker
Subject (Topic)
Commerce
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Published / Created:
[not after 1764]
Call Number:
Folio 75 H67 800 v.1 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A shop card with an image of a ship being loaded with goods in Florence. Mercury turns to a woman (emblem of Florence) with a sampling of the goods of the region at her feet. On the right, workers carry loads of goods onto a ship as the merchant look...
Alternative Title:
Shop card for Mrs. Holt's, Italian Warehouse
Description:
Title from text below image.
Publisher:
Mrs. Holt
Subject (Geographic):
Florence (Italy)
Subject (Name):
Mercury (Roman deity)
Subject (Topic):
Commerce
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Lewis Walpole Library > At Mrs. Holts, Italian Ware House at [the] two olive posts in [the] broad part of the Strand almost oppostie to Exeter Change are sold all sorts of Italian silks as lustrings, sattins, padesois, velvets, damasks, &c. Fans, Legorne hats, flowers, lute & violin strings, books of essences, Venice treacle, balsomes, &c. And in a back warehouse all sorts of Italian wines, Florence cordials, oyl, olives, anchovies, capers, vermicelli, Bolognia sausidges, Parmesan cheese, Naple soap, &c. [graphic]
