S. West’s Sale Warehouse, For Unredeem’d Pledges, Corner of Fann’s · IALS Library - Cultural Property & Cultural Heritage Law

Title: S. West’s Sale Warehouse, For Unredeem’d Pledges, Corner of Fann’s
Description: This object has two sides—and two uses. It was originally a engraved copper printing plate for the trade cards for an emporium selling unredeemed pawnshop goods. This use, producing ephemeral business cards, dates to around 1800. Around 1810, the valuable copper found a new purpose as the support for a miniature oil painting of a bucolic landscape complete with a thatched farmhouse, overgrown ruins, and cattle in the foreground.
Date: c.1800
Source: https://search.libraries.london.ac.uk/permalink/44SHL_INST/1j7aip0/alma991016298239709266
Format: Printing Surface
Century: 19th
Subject: Painting

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