Sparrow trade card
Description
Pictorial late 18th or early 19th century engraved trade card of Sparrow in green ink. Trader details in a variety of typefaces in oval beadwork frame in centre of card and on banner underneath. Images of vases with leaning figures, tombs and fireplaces in each corner of card. Material draped across cameo profile of head at top of card. Remains of previous brown paper mount and manuscript pencil note in John Bedford's hand on reverse 'George Sparrow, Stamford. 1811 (Holden's Dir.)' Transcription: SPARROW, High Street, Stamford. PAINTER, GILDER & JAPANNER. Monuments, Chimney Pieces, Vases, Tombs &c. executed in the newest taste in Marble, Swithland Stone, &c. Fine Cryftal [Crystal] & Copal Varnifh [Varnish]. Elegant Ornaments for Chimney Pieces in Petrification.
Sparrow trade card - image 1
Pictorial late 18th or early 19th century engraved trade card of Sparrow in green ink. Trader details in a variety of typefaces in oval beadwork frame in centre of card and on banner underneath. Images of vases with leaning figures, tombs and fireplaces in each corner of card. Material draped across cameo profile of head at top of card. Remains of previous brown paper mount and manuscript pencil note in John Bedford's hand on reverse 'George Sparrow, Stamford. 1811 (Holden's Dir.)' Transcription: SPARROW, High Street, Stamford. PAINTER, GILDER & JAPANNER. Monuments, Chimney Pieces, Vases, Tombs &c. executed in the newest taste in Marble, Swithland Stone, &c. Fine Cryftal [Crystal] & Copal Varnifh [Varnish]. Elegant Ornaments for Chimney Pieces in Petrification.
Sparrow trade card - image 2
Pictorial late 18th or early 19th century engraved trade card of Sparrow in green ink. Trader details in a variety of typefaces in oval beadwork frame in centre of card and on banner underneath. Images of vases with leaning figures, tombs and fireplaces in each corner of card. Material draped across cameo profile of head at top of card. Remains of previous brown paper mount and manuscript pencil note in John Bedford's hand on reverse 'George Sparrow, Stamford. 1811 (Holden's Dir.)' Transcription: SPARROW, High Street, Stamford. PAINTER, GILDER & JAPANNER. Monuments, Chimney Pieces, Vases, Tombs &c. executed in the newest taste in Marble, Swithland Stone, &c. Fine Cryftal [Crystal] & Copal Varnifh [Varnish]. Elegant Ornaments for Chimney Pieces in Petrification.
Metadata
| Identifier | t62gq4p6 |
| IRN | 718715 |
| Class Mark | MS 2241/4/2/73 |
| Level | Item |
| Type of Record | Archives - ISAD(G) |
| Peristent Link | http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/t62gq4p6 |
| Collection(s) | Art and Antique Market, John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History |
| Category | Archive |
| Technique | engraving |
| Medium | |
| Support | pasteboard |
| Object | width 118mm height 78mm |
| Parent Record | Miscellaneous Trade Cards and Ephemera |
| Creator(s) | Sparrow |
| Date | c.1800 |
| Size and Medium | 1 trade card |