Silvester, Richard William, 1769 or 1770-1842, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1800 and 1820]
Call Number:
800.00.00.106+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image and text
Abstract:
Trade card with all engraved text and with large (64 x 166 mm) engraved illustration at top showing aviaries and menagerie surrmounted by a coat of arms
Alternative Title:
James Pilton's manufactory, King's Road, Chelsea, Middx. ...
Description:
Title engraved above image., Text below image continues: ... establish'd under the distinguished patronage of their Majesties & Royal Family. Pleasure ground fences on an improv'd principle, ... wrought iron gates, ..., libraries ..., hot houses, conservatories, & all kinds of horticultural buildings ..., menageries, ... as also stock’d with all kinds of pheasants, poultry & water fowl ..., awnings, varandahs, alcoves & summer retreats, aviaries, pheasantries & dove cotes, ... The warehouse No. 204, Piccadilly, London, near St. James's Church ..., Date from the years that James Pilton was active: ca. 1800-1820. See British Musem online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., For a variant trade card of James Pilton, using the same illustration but varying in text, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Heal,85.238., and Window mounted to 44 x 33 cm. For further information, consult library staff.
A trade card illustrated with craftsmen engaged in the activities of their trade as carpenters and architects as well as furnishing funerals
Alternative Title:
Benjamin and John Osgood carpenters, at the Rising Sun ...
Description:
Title from item., Date suggested by dealer., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on secondary sheet. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Benjamin & John Osgood
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Topic):
Architects, Carpenters, Undertakers and undertaking, Carpentry, Equipment, Saws, and Tools
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.
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 from text above image., Date of publication from unverified data from local card catalog record., Heading continues: The drift of this ladder to well comprehend, take a paddy's advice and begin at the end., Each of ten numbered images in sequence paired with letterpress caption: (1.) A wight by poverty oppress'd, by duns and creditors distriss'd, thus to his dame in dudgeon said, while dreams of horror fill'd his head (go to No. 2) ..., and Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
A lithographically printed advertisement for G. Wooll of Hastings, showing a view of the town. Wooll was also a printer and publisher who issued local views of Hastings and Rye as individual prints and bound collections
Description:
Title from text in upper left corner of image. and Mounted to 16 x 26.5 cm. For further information, consult library staff.
Handbill that lists the routes and timings of departure for coaches operated in 1806 by Roberts, Thompson and Co., leaving London from the White Horse Inn, Fetter Lane and Cross Keys Inn, Wood Street, to a variety of destinations, including Chester, Cambridge, Canterbury, Edinburgh, Fakenham, Hull, Ipswich, Liverpool, Manchester, Norwich, Yarmouth, and York
Description:
Caption title., Framed by border of printers' ornaments., and With unidentified contemporary ms. notes from newspaper notices dated 27 September 1806, in ink. For further information, consult library staff.
Handbill that lists the routes and timings of departure for coaches operated in 1806 by Roberts, Thompson and Co., leaving London from the White Horse Inn, Fetter Lane and Cross Keys Inn, Wood Street, to a variety of destinations, including Chester, Cambridge, Canterbury, Edinburgh, Fakenham, Hull, Ipswich, Liverpool, Manchester, Norwich, Yarmouth, and York
Description:
Caption title., Framed by border of printers' ornaments., and With unidentified contemporary ms. notes from newspaper notices dated 27 September 1806, in ink. For further information, consult library staff.
Title from item., Quarto handbill, illustrated with a coat of arms at top; all within a thick mourning border., "Westminster Cloth Mart, No. 7, Tothill Street. The impression being general, in all cases of public mourning, that an advance of price takes place on all articles for which the demand is increased, W.P. and E. Dudden inform the public, that they have lately purchased the entire stock of cloths and cassimeres of a reputed manufacturer in the west of England, who is retiring from that business; consisting of Second, Saxon, and Superlative black cloths and cassimeres; in consequence of which, their present stock of black goods ... instead of being advanced in price, will be offered considerably under the regular prices.", and Laid on to recent green card. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Balne, printer, Gracechurch Street
Subject (Geographic):
England and London.
Subject (Name):
Charlotte Augusta, Princess of Great Britain, 1796-1817
Caption title., Broadside advertising an ascent by Sieur Krous involving balloons in the form of Henry IV of France and "a number of wild animals", which would perform an "aerial chace, or hunt in the air"., and With a newspaper clipping from The Times for the 4th July 1815 explaining that there were long delays at the event, and insufficient gas to fill the balloons. For further information, consult library staff.