S. West’s Sale Warehouse, For Unredeem’d Pledges, Corner of Fann’s

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

Exhibition Theme

Collecting Spineless Wonders

Subject

Painting