A trade card issued by Edward Orme announcing a change of address for his printselling, framing and stationery business from Conduit Stree to New Bond Street. The image show a cherub emerging from a break in a thick bank of clouds, as he holds a caducesus. On the right a bearded man in a cap and in a fur trimmed cloak reaches toward the cherub; the man has a snake at his feet. High in the center a bat flies toward the scene
Alternative Title:
Edward Orme, removed from Conduit Street to 59 New Bond Street ...
Description:
Title from text in center of image., Date of publication from dealer's description., Text below image: Where are sold all his new invented transparent prints and every other publication. Merchants & dealers supplied on the most liberal terms. Pictures, prints & drawings framed. Drawing books, fancy prints & drawing materials., "Printseller to the King.", Sheet trimmed to plate mark on all but lower edge., and For further information, consult library staff.
Title from item., Title continues: Makes & sells all sorts of jewellers work at the most reasonable rates. Buys, sells, or appraises all sorts of household furniture, wearing apparel, second-hand plate watches, & c. N.B. Most money for old gold and silver lace, burnt or unburnt., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 62 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 135 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Title from item., Title continues: Makes & sells all sorts of fans, necklaces, flowers, gawse [sic] handkerchiefs, hair-caps, ribbons, patches, stomachers, wiers, fustian-caps, rosettes, bags, black-lace, gloves, muffatees, cloaks, capuchins, hoods, lavender & hungary water, n. th. all forts of Haberdashery wares., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 56 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Title from item., Title continues: ... after the most modern taste; wholesale and retail at reasonable rates. NB. Fans mended after the neatest manner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 20 of an album of trade cards and invitations.
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.