photographic print;
trade-card
- Museum number
- Heal,59.63
- Description
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Photograph of a trade card of Paul Fourdrinier, printmaker and printseller at the corner of Cragg's Court, Charing Cross, London, showing a classical scene with a winged Genius holding an engraved portrait of Gérard Edelinck, pieces of broken masonry with relief heads of Dürer and Marcantonio Raimondi; two putti attend the Genius; a statue of Mercury on a column in the background, a domed building beyond; below the image is a plinth with a cartouche held by two winged putti.
- Production date
- 1731 (dated)
- Dimensions
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Height: 190 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 110 millimetres (sheet)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Heal noted on the mount that the original of the card was in Capt. N. D. Fourdrinier's possession.
For other cards and bill-heads of Paul Fourdrinier and members of his family, see Heal,59.62, Heal,111.7, Heal,111.61, Heal,111.62, Heal,111.63, Heal,111.64, and (in the Banks collection) D,2.474
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1960
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Heal,59.63
