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.
Title from item., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Four vignettes signed Cham, one signed RB?, Above image: Études comiques sur le magnétisme.; 29., Recto of a sheet containing seven additional vignettes on verso (p. 29-30)., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Magnetism, Osmosis, Senses and sensation, Hypnotism, Soldiers, Sleeping, Ink, Kettles, Hammers, and Coffee
Reasons humbly offered against a clause in the bill against clandestine running of un-customed and prohibited goods, and for the more effectual preventing of frauds relating to the customs, which relates to the package of coffee for exportation and Reasons humbly offer'd against a clause in the bill against running of un-customed and prohibited goods, and for the more effectual preventing of frauds relating to the customs, which relates to the package of coffee for exportation
Description:
Caption title., The Journals of the House of Commons for 12 Jan. 1718 [Lady Day dating, i.e. 12 Jan. 1719] state that: "Mr. Lowndes presented to the House ..., a bill against clandestine running of uncustomed and prohibited goods; and for the more effectual preventing of frauds relating to the customs: and the same was received; and read the first time.", The bill this relates to was enacted: 5 Geo I. c.11., With a docket title., and Stab marks to left margin. For further information, consult library staff.
De l'usage du caphé, du thé, et du chocolate. English
Description:
The tracts on tea and on chocolate have special title-pages. Those on tea and coffee are tr. by John Chamberlayne from the French of Philippe Sylvestre Dufour; that on chocolate from the Spanish of Antonio Colmenero de Ledesma. Cf. British Museum catalogue. and Attributed also to J. Spon.
BEIN UvL12 C6 682n: Letter from ... C, 8, 12, 23 confuses "..." that this book is not translation of "Defow's work" and said it is in the "... of the books ... in the Brit. Museum (Natural hist.) v. 1, p. 562 with the note: "... same attributed to J. Chamberlayne who in 1655 bought the ... edition gives note on title entry "attributed" sometimes to John Chamberlayne" .. in ... vol. IX. and Attributed doubtfully by British Museum to John Chamberlayne, 1666-1723, whose translation of French tracts on coffee and tea by Philippe S. Dufour was published in 1685.
Publisher:
C. Wilkinson
Subject (Topic):
Beverages, Chocolate, Tobacco, Coffee, Tea, and Wine and wine making
