"Trade card of Peter Griffin, printseller, at Dial and Three Crowns, Next the Globe Tavern, Fleet Street, from the late Overtons; text on sheet at the centre with clock face and three crowns above; with various prints overlapping behind it, including maps, portraits, satires, and ornaments."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from item., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Heal,100.32., Imprint engraved at top of plate; date of publication below image, lower right., Engraved above the image is a detailed list of wares for sale: All sorts of maps both foreign & English, fine French, Italian, Dutch, and English Prints; metzo-tinto heads, & historys black, or painted on glass; fitteth up Gent. halls, or large rooms [with] maps or prints on rolers, neatly puts into frames & glasses any of [the] above goods. NB. Where merchants, or sea commanders, country or town chapmen may be supplied wth. quanteties [sic] of the above goods, at the most reasonable rates, for exportation &c., and Date "1747" added in ink in lower right corner. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Sold by Peter Griffin, map & printseller at the Three Crowns & Dial, next the Globe Tavern, Fleet Street
Caption title., Text in three columns below caption title and a large woodcut of one of Sharp's horse-drawn vehicles., Date in ms. '1773'., Woodcut illustration with lettering in image: "James Sharp, Leadenhall Street, London, Common Stage.", "N.B. Rolling Carts and Waggons of all Kinds, according to Act of Parliament, are built by James Sharp, of Leadenhall-Street, London."--End of text., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Carriages and carts, Wagons, Transportation, and Carts & wagons
Title from item., Date from annotation in brown ink in upper right corner: Apr. 29th, 1758., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., On leaf 159 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates., and Contemporary annotations in brown ink fill the blanks on recto; addressed to "Mr. Gowers, coachmaker ..." on verso.
Title from text in image., Date of publication based on printmaker's street address; see British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Part of a collection of 10 trade cards and tickets housed together in a box., and With contemporary annotations in brown ink: "Eleventh night" written above image on recto, and "No. 3" followed by "The Honble. Mrs. Walsingham at Lord Vernon's Park Place at 8 OClock" written on verso.
Caption title., Text at bottom of page: Bank, India, and South Sea stocks with their several annuities, and all sorts of government securities, bought and sold by commission., The Lewis Walpole Library copy: Address to "Madam" and annotated as number "28998"., With contemporary manuscript notes in ink filling in the blanks in ticket., and For further information, consult library staff.
Caption title., Includes a printed list of paints and oils, as well as other chandlery goods including preserved goods and other supplies of use on board ships., Inscribed "No. 6 Painters Bill. The Marchoness of Ada[?] Capt Ogilvie. 1765." in ink on recto, over the printed list of paints. The verso lists the paints supplied to "Jno. Clarke Esq. For the Brig Marchoness ordered [by] Capt Hugolvie. ... [between] May 22 1765 [and] June 11 1765." The bill was paid in full August 30, 1765, and signed by James Ogilvie and Thomas Hewerdine., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Thomas Hewerdine
Subject (Geographic):
England.
Subject (Topic):
Advertising, Paint, Paint industry and trade, and Painters (Tradespeople)
Title from first lines of text., A settlement certificate signed, and with seals, by the church wardens, overseers of the poor, and witnesses, for a husband, wife, and their two children in the Parish pf Tamworth in the county of Warwick., "(No. 18)"--Upper left, above coat of arms., Certificate completed in manuscript to establish the right of William Bissell and his family to relief in Tamworth; signed and sealed by the churchwardens and overseers of the poor. Imprint trimmed. For further information, consult library staff., and Annotated in blank ink on verso: No. 153, Wm. Bissells certificate from Tamworth.
Title from item., Date from contemporary annotation in lower right corner: JL [monogram] 1758., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., On leaf 162 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates., and Contemporary manuscript annotations in brown ink fill the blanks on recto; "To Mr. Legg, Coffee Mill, St. James's Market" written in brown ink on verso.
The subscription ticket for "Marriage A-la-Mode". A group of heads drawn in a naturalistic style seen in profile; below, five compartments with heads after Raphael's Vatican tapestry cartoons (i.e."characters") and caricatures after Ghezzi, Raphael Urbin, Annibale Carracci, and Leonardo da Vinci
Alternative Title:
3 characters. 4 caricaturas and Three characters. Four caricaturas
Description:
Title from Paulson: Characters and caricaturas., Title etched below image: 3 characters. 4 caricaturas : for a farthar explanation of the difference betwixt character & caricatura see [the] preface to Joh. Andrews., Date and state from Paulson., The receipt is engraved below the caption: Rec'd [blankl] of [blank] Half a guinea being the first payment for six prints called Marriage a la mode which I promise to deliver when finish'd on receiving half a guinea more. N.B. The price will be one guinea and an half after the time of subscribing., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand to right of print: See Nichols's bok, 3d. edit. p. 262., Blanks filled in ms. to show receipt from Mr. Stephen Abbort, dated 12 May 1743 and signed by Hogarth., and On page 108 in volume 2. Sheet trimmed to plate mark on three sides: 27.4 x 20.4.