Soper's Drapery Emporium trade card

Description

Highly pictorial 19th century chromolithographed trade card of Soper's Drapery Emporium. Large image of shop filling front of card, with horses and carts on road in foreground. Trader details on reverse in red ink with decorative flourishes, inside line frame. Transcription of obverse: SOPER'S DRAPERY EMPORIUM NORTH ST BRIGHTON Sussex Steam Litho Works, Brighton. Transcription of reverse: THE ORIGINAL ESTABLISHMENT FOR SUPPLYING THE PUBLIC WITH BEST QUALITY ARTICLES AT THE LOWEST CASH PRICES. EVERY ARTICLE MARKED IN PLAN FIGURES. SOPER'S DRAPERY EMPORIUM TOP OF NORTH ST [STREET] FACING WESTERN RD [ROAD] BRIGHTON.

Media

Metadata

Identifier w1bh6hcz
IRN 721484
Class Mark MS 2241/4/3/173
Level Item
Type of Record Archives - ISAD(G)
Peristent Link http://prototype1.library.leeds.ac.uk/w1bh6hcz
Collection(s) Art and Antique Market, John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History
Category Archive
Technique chromolithograph
Medium print
Support pasteboard
Object width 140mm height 87mm
Parent Record Furniture Trade Cards, Billheads and Miscellaneous Ephemera
Creator(s) Soper's Drapery Emporium, Sussex Steam Litho Works
Date c.1880
Size and Medium 1 trade card

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