Title devised by curator; alternative titles from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 82 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Image of a fan surrounded by angels and women, with a crown above
Alternative Title:
Shop card for Gordon's Old Fan Warehouse
Description:
Title, artist, printmaker and date from Paulson., Extensively burnished and reworked plate, without former captions or signatures and with a small "J.S." inside the design. See Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 55 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Title devised by curator., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text from bottom edge., and On leaf 137 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Title devised by curator; alternative title from item., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On leaf 119 of an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.
Berghe, Ignatius Joseph van den, 1752-1824, artist, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1799]
Call Number:
Quarto 66 726 T675
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
text and still image
Alternative Title:
Lozenges of Steel
Description:
Title from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: D,2.3513., Engraved text providing an "Explanation of the emblematical print" is printed on verso: The figure on the right hand represents Infirmity, to whose assistance Medicine comes & points to the remedy inscribed on the Altar of Health., Below explanation on verso is printed a 17-line engraved advertisement: "Lozenges of Steel," a medicine possessed of the most extraordinary powers in the cure of those diseases which are occasion'd by intemperance, excess, and impropitious climate ... are prepared only by Dr. Senate, late of Soho Square, and sold at Mr. Pidding's Medicine Ware-House, No. 76 Oxford Street ..., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Laid in an album with spine title: Trade tokens and bookplates.