"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
Title from item., Title continues: Sells all sorts of Italian, Dutch, French, & Flemish prints & drawings, both of the antient & modern masters, with the greatest variety of Japanning, watercolours, crayons, & every article relating to drawing; prints fram'd & glaz'd in the best & cheapest manner; pictures carefully clean'd, lin'd & repair'd., Printmaker from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Heal,100.80., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 116 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Title from item., Title continues: Make & sell all sorts of mops, brushes, brooms, seives, painted floor cloths, leghorn straw-hats, fine cradles, & all sorts of basket ware, libnum vitae & Tunbridge wares, and all sorts of turnery goods, for exportation., Sheet trimmed within plate mark on left edge., and On leaf 18 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Title continues: ... Sells all sorts of fine teas, coffee, chocolate, sago, best Spanish, Scotch rappee and Portugal snuffs, finest blues & starch, with all sorts of grocerys [sic] at the lowest prices., and On leaf 6 of an album of trade cards and invitations.
Morrison, Bewley Wynne, active 1750-1775, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1757]
Call Number:
Quarto 66 726 T675
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
Title from item., Title continues: Makes & sells all sorts of cabinets, chairs, upholstry, glasses &c., as chests of drawers, desks, book-cases, library book-cases, bureau furnitures, cabinet, commode, dressing, dining, Pembrook, & breakfast tables; easy, French, settee, & bed-chairs, sophas; camp, tent, field, & down beds, feather beds & blankets of all sorts; floor-carpet, made to rooms of any size; sconce, pier, chimney, swinging, and dressing-glasses, in [the] genteelest taste, &c., at reasonable rates., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 19 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
A medley print advertising the business of map and printseller George Pulley with portrait prints, caricatures, and satires overlaid on images of maps, some prints with identifiable titles (e.g. The contrast). According to the British Museum online catalogue (September 2019) trade cards of the same design were used by Michael Jackson and Peter and Elizabeth Griffin
Alternative Title:
George Pulley Esqr., map and printseller at Rembrandt's Head ...
Description:
Title from item., Date of publication from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
[approximately 1757]
Call Number:
Quarto 66 726 T675
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Description:
Title from item., Initial letters of printmaker's signature form a monogram., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 105 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.