print;
trade-card
- Museum number
- D,2.3238
- Description
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Trade card of Matthias Darly, advertising wallpapers, at the Acorn, facing Hungerford, Strand; text within ornamental frame, with many rolls of wallpaper at each side with different patterns; a large acorn under a canopy at the top.
Engraving and etching
- Production date
- 1756-1758 (circa; Darly was working from this address around 1756-1758)
- Dimensions
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Height: 253 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 189 millimetres (trimmed)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For other trade cards belonging to Matthias Darly, see: Heal,59.49. The present example indicates that he took up the new fashion for wallpapers which replaced gilded leather and to a large extent textiles for lining the walls of fashionable houses in the mid 18th century.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2003 May-Nov, BM, London 1753, no.3.68
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- D,2.3238