Trade card for the Dawbarn family grocery warehouse, situated in Aldermanbury, London. It shows a man wearing typical Chinese dress, sitting on boxes on the banks of a river. Behind him looms a large pagoda, and to his right a box, an urn, and a basket overflowing with goods
Description:
Title from item., Date entry in Kent's original London directory, 1816 edition., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
T. Dawbarn
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Grocers, Ethnic stereotypes, Pagodas, Rivers, and Ships
Title engraved below image., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom edge., and On leaf 135 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Title from item., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom edge., and On leaf 18 of an album of trade cards and invitations.
Title from item., Title continues: Sell Genoa & Dutch velvets, brocades, damasks, paduasoys, rasdemores, sattins, tabbys, armozeens, ducapes, sergedusoys, mantuas, strip'd & plain lustrings, sarsenets, persians, poplins, broglio's, strip'd & plain Irish stuffs, furniture & other stuff damasks, camblets, callimanco's &c. Norwich crapes for mourning, of particular good mixtures. Black & white bombazeens., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 36 of an album of trade cards and invitations.
Title from item., Title continues: Makes & sells all sorts of figures in plaister [sic] of Paris, wholesale and retail. N.B. Figures carefully pack'd and sent to all parts by sea or land., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 57 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Title from item., Title continues: Makes & sells all sorts of figures in plaister [sic] of Paris, wholesale and retail. N.B. Figures carefully pack'd and sent to all parts by sea or land., Proof state, before man's head added in space above text and with woman's head at top of image etched in outline only., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 57 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Title from item., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom edge., and On leaf 142 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
"Trade card of Fraser, scientific instrument maker, with portrait of the astronomer James Ferguson at top, bust, slightly to left, in oval with garland and ribbon, scientific instruments on pedestal below."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Fraser, optical and mathematical instrument maker at Fergusons Head ... and James Ferguson
Description:
Title from item., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1930,1115.1., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Part of a collection of 10 trade cards and tickets housed together in a box.
Publisher:
William Fraser
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Ferguson, James, 1710-1776,
Subject (Topic):
Scientific apparatus and instruments industry and Scientific equipment