Peter de La Fontaine goldsmith [graphic] : at the Golden Cup in Litchfield Street Soho / W. Hogarth ft.

Published/Created:
[London]
[publisher not identified]
[179-?]
Physical Description:
1 print : engraving on laid paper ; sheet 138 x 165 mm
Notes:
Title etched in image.
Full title from more perfect impression in the British Museum. Text continues: "... makes & sells all sorts of gold & silver plate, swords, rings, jewells &c, at [the] lowest prices."
Formerly attributed to William Hogarth and based on his shop card for his sisters Mary and Ann.
Also formerly attributed to Sympson.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text.
Purchased from John Grant, Ltd., Edinburgh; August 1940; £20 Kinnaird lot. With Kinnaird bookplate; disbound at Yale.
Formerly owned by Charles Kinnaird, 8th Lord Kinnaird of Inchture (1780-1826).
Abstract:
Supposed trade card of Peter de La Fontaine, goldsmith, with a cartouche containing a view of the interior of a shop, with customers in the foreground and craftsmen at work beyond.
Associated Names:
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764 [Attributed name]
Sympson, Joseph, -1736 [Attributed name]
Topics:
Gold work
Goldsmiths -- England -- London
Jewelry stores
Kinnaird, Charles Kinnaird, Baron, 1780-1826
Language:
English
Genre:
Advertising cards -- England -- London
Engravings -- England -- London -- 1790
Format:
Image
Content Type:
Prints & Photographs
Rights:
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Call Number:
Kinnaird 79K(n) Box 120
Orbis Record:
9854937
Yale Collection:
Lewis Walpole Library
Digital Collection:
Lewis Walpole Library
Local Record Number:
lwlpr22461
Volume/Enumeration:
Digital version
OID:
16034927
PID:
digcoll:2814223