print;
trade-card
- Museum number
- D,2.3379
- Description
-
Trade card of Hannah Humphrey, printseller, at 51 New Bond Street, London; text in oval with urn above it, garland hanging around it and tied at the top corners with bows.
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1779 (c., with lettering changed in 1782)
- Dimensions
-
Height: 63 millimetres (trimmed)
-
Width: 49 millimetres (trimmed)
- $Inscriptions
-
- Curator's comments
- As Tim Clayton noted this is a reworked version made in late 1782 of D,2.3381 to reflect Humphrey's move by March 1783 from 18 to 51 New Bond St, see T. Clayton, 'James Gillray, a revolution in satire', New Haven and London, 2022, p. 41. For the earlier card see D,2.3381.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- D,2.3379