Collection of mostly English engraved trade cards for a wide variety of London businesses, especially those advertising goods and services relating to household furnishings, men and women's attire and accessories such as gloves, boots, and swords, mercers and haberdashery being the most numerous. In addition there are cards for: cabinet makers, engravers and jewelers, clockmakers, tea shops, grocers, wine suppliers, exotic oil suppliers, apothecaries, hair styling, an auctioneer, and an undertaker. Also included are several invitations to private events such as a birthday party and a lodge meeting. Also included is one advertisement for an Edinburgh pewter shop and one for a French supplier of maps
Title supplied by cataloger., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On loose leaf before page numbered 1 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
Collection of 10 engraved trade cards for a variety of business as well as tickets for admissions to a variety of events including concerts and auctions. Some engravings signed by the artist; two cards annotated in manuscript. Engravers include: Hall from Russell Street, Bloomsbury; Strongitharm, No. 127 Pall Mall; Ashby Russel Court, Darling, Lockington Street
"Cupid dressing as Hercules, standing, facing front, looking towards right, naked, holding a club and a lion head over his right shoulder, a bow in his left hand; in an oval medallion; 1785 restrike."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger. and On page numbered 27 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
Publisher:
Publish'd May 25, 1785, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 Bond Street
Proof of an engraving which was later used on tickets to multiple concerts including one at St Margaret's Church, Westminster, Thursday 31st. May 1792 (see impression in the British Museaum online catalogue), one at Whitehall Chapel, Thursday 8th June 1797 (see impression in the British Museaum online catalogue) and another at the Concert Room, King's Theatre, Haymarket, May 179[blank] (see impression in the Lewis Walpole Library). The image shows, on the right, St Cecilia seated, playing the organ; on the left, two winged figures standing; in an oval; below, a block of low-relief which depicts Charity and three children; a lion and a unicorn on sides of the relief; after Robert Smirke
Alternative Title:
Concert Room, Kings Theatre, Haymarket, May 179, St. Margaret's Church Wesminster, Thursday 31st. May 1792, and Whitehall Chapel, Thursday 8th June 1797
Description:
Title supplied by cataloger., Date from British Museum online catalogue, Cf. museum registration number C,3.95., and On page numbered 16 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
"The infant Bacchus, naked, sitting on top of a barrel, holding a vessel in his right hand; his left arm uplifted, holding a chalice; unfinished proof."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from Calabi and de Vesme., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and On page numbered 36 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
