print;
trade-card
- Museum number
- D,2.1710
- Description
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Trade card of Thomas Harper, working jeweller, goldsmith and hardwareman at 207 Fleet Street, London, the text inscribed at centre, a wine cooler above it, flanked by masonic symbols, and other silver objects scattered around, a garland running at top and another below.
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1782-1790 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 63 millimetres (card)
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Width: 94 millimetres (card)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The near-identical example in the Heal collection see Heal,67.191 must be earlier this one as it does not include the freemasonry symbols included here denoting Harper having joined the brotherhood.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- D,2.1710