print;
tobacco-paper;
advertisement
- Museum number
- D,2.3877
- Description
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'The wish', tobacco-paper for (Ignatius) Sancho's Best Trinidado, at No. 19 Charles Street, Westminster; a European trader shaking hands with a native American, both with a foot on a shield with the fleur-de-lis of France, the European holds a spear which pierces the shield; to left boxes, a barrel and anchor beneath a pulley; to right and beyond, ships' sails and masts
Etching
- Production date
- 1774-1780 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 62 millimetres (cropped)
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Width: 83 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Sancho kept a grocery shop from 1774 (DNB gives No. 20 Charles Street, Westminster, as the address).
See also Banks 117.151 (inventory number D,2.3977).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2007/8 May-April, BM, Coins & Medals, Room 69a, 'Inhuman Traffic'
- Acquisition date
- 1818
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- D,2.3877