On the left, standing in front of a thatched hut. "Africa" wears a plumed headdress and animal pelt and holds a spear in his left hand; in his right hand he holds a document inscribed "Slave Trade abolish'd 1806." On the right, "America" is Lady Liberty, wearing plumed headdress and cloak; she holds a standard with the Stars and Stripes, and gestures at a pedestal with portraits of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. A snake curls around the pedestal. Between the two figures is a landscape with hills on either side of a river, and waterfall; a crocodile emerges from behind the figure of Africa
Alternative Title:
America
Description:
Title from item., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and Description based on an imperfect impression; imprint statement mostly erased from sheet.
Publisher:
Published Augt. 20, 1807 [by W.B. Walker ...?]
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Washington, George, 1732-1799, and Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790,
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.
Allegorical caricature: Two couples approach a Cupid-like statue of a man with wings that has come alive; he wears a wig and carries a bow and a torch (extinguishing as he holds in downwards); he stands on a plinth hung with bags of money, an open chest with coins at its base and to the side sits a cat. On the tree behind (right) a sign reading "Coeur a vendreau, a louer au plus offrant &c dernier encherisseur" hangs from a heart pinned to the trunk on which a snake is curled hissing at the animated statue. The two couples are mismatched in age, in the center a handsome young officer stands with a withered old woman and on the left, a young woman with a fat, old man who holds a bag of coins. On the far left a turkey follows the procession
Description:
Title engraved below image., "Déposé à la Bibliolthêque."--Following imprint., Date from citation in: Journal général de la littérautre de France, 12è année, p. 58., and Mounted on secondary support. With mirror image ms. notes on verso, illegible.
Publisher:
Chez Noel Fréres rue des Prétres, St. Germain l'Auxerois, no. 22. Rue St. Jacques no. 16
