deem-data/ArtiFact huggingface dataset:
Leydens Ramp
Object type: print
Date: 1807 – 1828
Materials: paper
Techniques: aquatint, etching, hand coloring
Location: unknown
Subjects: armorial bearing, heraldry, gunpowder disaster, leiden
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

De locatie van de ramp was het Steenschuur, een gracht in het verlengde van het Rapenburg.
Napkin (from a set of table linens)
Object type: napkin
Date: 1867 – 1900
Materials: linen
Techniques: lace
Subjects: profiles
Gezicht op de Breukelse brug bij Gunterstein, 1660
Object type: print
Date: 1725 – 1803
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: amsterdam
Artist: abraham rademaker
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1676 – 1735
Subjects: prospect of village, silhouette of village, sailing-ship, sailing-boat, castle, vecht

Prent ook gebruikt in: Rademaker, Abraham. Kabinet van Nederlandsche outheden en gezichten: vervat in 300 konstplaaten (…). 2 delen. Amsterdam: Willem Barents, 1725, dl. 2, ill. 232.

Na 1725 is deze prent nog in verschillende heruitgaven verschenen, uitgegeven in 1727-1733, 1770-1771 en 1792-1803. Uit welke uitgave het huidige exemplaar precies komt is niet na te gaan.
W.W. Clapp, Boston Morning Journal, from the American Editors series (N1) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands
Object type: print
Date: 1887 – 1887
Techniques: color lithograph
Artist: allen & ginter
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Subjects: men,portraits

Trade cards from the "American Editors" series (N1), issued in 1887 in a series of 50 cards to promote Allen & Ginter Brand Cigarettes.
Object type: medallion
Date: 1776 – 1800
Materials: ceramic
Location: france
Artist: jean-baptiste nini
Artist role: maker
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1717 – 1786
Subjects: men,profiles
Autumnal Sunset
Object type: print
Date: 1831 – 1831
Techniques: mezzotint
Artist: david lucas
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1802 – 1881
Subjects: men,horses,autumn,evening

In 1827, Constable began work on the project that would occupy his attention until his death seven years later: the publication of a series of prints based on his paintings that would stand as a summary of his achievements. The painter collaborated closely with the engraver David Lucas to create prints that would illustrate Constable's didactic intention—to illustrate the "chiaroscuro of nature." The medium of mezzotint, in which the design is developed from dark to light using a wide range of velvety tones, was eminently suited to the project.
Warren Station near Petersburg
Object type: photograph
Date: 1864 – 1864
Techniques: albumen silver print, glass negative
Artist: timothy h. o'sullivan
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: american, born ireland
Artist dates: 1840 – 1882
Subjects: american civil war,men
Many Horns, Blackfeet Sioux, from the American Indian Chiefs series (N2) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands
Object type: print
Date: 1888 – 1888
Techniques: color lithograph
Artist: allen & ginter
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Subjects: men,portraits

Trade cards from the "American Indian Chiefs" series (N2), issued in 1888 in a series of 50 cards to promote Allen & Ginter Brand Cigarettes.
Paris
Object type: photograph
Date: 1870 – 1900
Materials: cardboard, paper
Techniques: albumen print
Location: france
Artist: louis antoine pamard
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1840 – 1893
Subjects: street
Inscriptions: number: ‘No 190’
Portret van een onbekende man, aangeduid als Ivar Lundberg
Object type: photograph
Date: 1872 – 1872
Materials: cardboard, paper
Techniques: albumen print
Location: uppsala
Artist: henri ostis
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1826 – 1914
Subjects: historical persons, youth, adolescent
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Ivar Lundberg/ 1872’, inscription: ‘HENRI OSTIS/ FOTOGRAFI-ATELIÉR/ Copiering efter Taflor, Fotografier m.m./ verkställes i alla storlekar./ UPSALA./ Stora Kungsgatan No. 55./ Plåten förvaras för efterbeställning.’, inscription: ‘1.-’
Design for an Ewer
Object type: drawing
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: graphite, ink, paper
Techniques: brush, pen, wash
Artist: anonymous, french, 19th century
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1800 – 1900
Subjects: leaves,ewers
Percussie legerpistool model M 1815
Object type: percussion pistol
Date: 1815 – 1816
Materials: brass, iron, wood
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Inscriptions: signature: ‘B met kroon’, signature: ‘K met kroon’, signature: ‘W met kroon’, signature: ‘IS met kroon’
Bugler in military dress
Object type: figure
Date: 1750 – 1750
Materials: earthenware
Techniques: glazing
Artist: astbury-whieldon
Artist role: maker
Subjects: musical instruments,men,musicians
Maerten de Vos
Object type: print
Date: 1570 – 1629
Techniques: engraving
Artist: aegidius sadeler (ii)
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: flemish
Artist dates: 1568 – 1629
Subjects: men,portraits
Catálogo de los objetos presentados en la primera exposicion de artes decorativas
Object type: book
Date: 1881 – 1881
Materials: cardboard, linen, paper
Techniques: photograph, printing
Location: barcelona
Stamboom en wapen Brandes-familie
Object type: drawing
Date: 1778 – 1792
Materials: paper, pencil, watercolor
Techniques: brush
Artist: jan brandes
Artist role: draughtsman
Artist dates: 1743 – 1808
Subjects: bodegraven, jan brandes, armorial bearing, heraldry

Kleurtekening van het wapen van familie Brandes. Stamboom van Brandes, 9 pagina's. Met opschrift. Onderdeel uit het schetsboek van Jan Brandes, dl. 2 (1808), p. 228, 230-237.
Genet
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1890 – 1900
Materials: paper
Techniques: photograph
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: microscope (+ scientific research)
Inscriptions: number: ‘X’
Loutrophoros (Container for Bath Water)
Object type: vessel
Date: 350 – 340
Materials: ceramic, terracotta
Location: apulia
Artist: attributed to the varrese painter
Artist nationality: ancient greek

The towering form and ornate handles of this vase are unique to workshops in Southern Italy. The abundance of delicate white and yellow accents, which were added after the firing of the main scenes, is also characteristic of this region. Vessels like this were designed to hold water for ritual bathing before marriage, but they could also be placed at the tombs of young women who did not live to a marriageable age.

This example likely served such a purpose, as it depicts a woman within a naiskos, a temple-like structure that would mark the gravesite of a wealthy family. On its body, the bride (the central figure seated on a folding stool) is surrounded by female friends and family members. The objects they hold, such as hand mirrors, jewelry, and
perfume flasks, represent the ritual of beautifying and preparing the bride for her wedding day—a practice still
carried out today.
Double-Sided Gospel Leaf
Object type: gospel
Date: 1301 – 1350
Materials: parchment, paint
Culture: ethiopian
Location: ethiopia
Subjects: animals,birds,men

The Tigray region of Ethiopia converted to Christianity in the fourth century and became a very important ally of the Byzantine empire, ruled from Constantinople (Istanbul), in controlling the trade routes to India. Tigray also maintained contacts with other Christian communities of the eastern Mediterranean, including those in Syria and Egypt. The compelling images on this double-sided leaf are from a group of early fourteenth-century Gospels that feature a revival of motifs that reached Ethiopia from the eastern Mediterranean, probably in the seventh century. Both sides of the leaf are inscribed in Ge'ez, the ancient language of Ethiopia. On the front is a dramatic octagonal Fountain of Life flanked by peacocks, which are identified in the inscriptions as "ostriches" (royal birds in Ethiopia), and gazellelike "babula." The text within the domed space refers to the arrangement of the Eusebian Canon Tables, or index to the Gospels, which preceded the image in the original manuscript. On the reverse, the Crucifixion is represented by a monumental jeweled cross topped by a Lamb of God, symbol of Christ's sacrifice. At the sides are the two thieves bound to their crosses. Other leaves from this Gospel are in the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm.
Portret van Jacob Jehuda Leon
Object type: print
Date: 1641 – 1641
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: braunschweig
Artist: conrad buno
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1616 – 1671
Subjects: gloves, mittens, etc., historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Opwekking aan de lieve jeugd
Object type: popular print
Date: 1848 – 1881
Materials: paper
Techniques: letterpress printing
Location: den bosch
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: bad behaviour, good behaviour
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2760

Blad met 15 moraliserende taferelen over goed en slecht gedrag van mensen. Onder elke afbeelding een vierregelig vers. Genummerd rechtsboven: No. 46.
Chalice Veil
Object type: chalice cover
Date: 1801 – 1900
Materials: metal thread, silk
Subjects: cross
The Actor Ichikawa Ebizo III as Kudo Saemon Suketsune in the Play Kamuri Kotoba Soga no Yukari, Performed at the Ichimura Theater in the First Month, 1776
Object type: print
Date: 1776 – 1776
Techniques: woodblock print
Location: japan
Artist: katsukawa shunsho 勝川 春章
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1726 – 1792
Uitnodiging van Schilder- en Teekenkundig Genootschap "Kunstliefde" voor een kunstbeschouwing, 29 januari 1901
Object type: print
Date: 1901 – 1901
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: utrecht
Subjects: criticizing and discussing art, art criticism, circle, club of artists, collecting and exhibiting products of the fine arts, church (exterior)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Gezicht op de Domtoren te Utrecht. Uitnodiging van Schilder- en Teekenkundig Genootschap "Kunstliefde" voor een kunstbeschouwing op 29 januari 1901 van de portefeuille van mevrouw Bingham.
Gezicht uit het Huis over de parterres Gras-en Waterkommen (...) / Vuë de la Maison vers les parterres et ses Bassins (...)
Object type: print
Date: 1729 – 1732
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Artist: hendrik de leth
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker, publisher
Artist dates: 1703 – 1766
Subjects: french or architectonic garden; formal garden, country-house
Inscriptions: stamp, collector's mark: Lugt 1641, stamp

Prent mogelijk uit: Brouërius van Nidek, Matthaeus. Het zegepralend Kennemerland, vertoond in 100 heerlyke gezichten. Amsterdam: Jan Roman, s.a. Of uit: Brouërius van Nidek, Matthaeus. Het zegepralend Kennemerland, vertoond in veele heerlyke gezichten. Amsterdam: Andries en Hendrik de Leth, s.a [1729-1732].
Card Number 179, Mrs. Victoria Shelling, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-2) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes
Object type: print
Date: 1880 – 1889
Techniques: albumen silver print
Artist: w. duke, sons & co.
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1870 – 1920
Subjects: women,actresses

Trade cards from the set "Actors and Actresses" (N145-2), issued in the 1880s by W. Duke Sons & Co. to promote Cross Cut Cigarettes. There are eight subsets of the N145 series. Various subsets sport different card designs and also promote different tobacco brands represented by W. Duke Sons & Company. This card is from the second subset, N145-2. Note that actors' names are spelled differently on cards throughout set and are not dependable for accuracy.
Landschap met rustende pelgrim
Object type: print
Date: 1666 – 1695
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Artist: jean pesne
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1623 – 1700
Subjects: pilgrim(s), church (exterior), outskirts of village
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240, number: ‘8’

Prent maakt deel uit van een serie van 283 prenten, ongenummerde staat.
Dish
Object type: ceramic
Date: 1750 – 1760
Materials: enamel, porcelain, soft paste porcelain
Techniques: polychrome
Location: chelsea
Artist: chelsea porcelain manufactory
Artist role: factory
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1744 – 1784
Skyphos (footed wine-cup) with laurel sprays on the body
Object type: cup skyphos, laurel spray
Materials: terracotta
Techniques: glazing
Location: egypt

Many artworks of the Roman Period in Egypt represent the taste of wealthy urban merchant and rich farming classes of Roman Egypt. Wide trade of luxury works is evident, and Greco-Roman style dominates. Since Egyptian pharaohs had first authorized Greek trading colonies and employed Greek mercenaries in the seventh century BC., there was a considerable Greek presence in Egypt. With Alexander's conquest, Macedonian Greek Ptolemies ruled as successors to the pharaohs, and Ptolemaic Greek and eastern Mediterranean soldiery was heavily settled in parts of Egypt. Although the Ptolemaic kings maintained traditional Egyptian religious and political forms, elite society, of mixed Greek and Egyptian descent, aspired to Greek culture in many respects. With the replacement of a Ptolemaic pharaoh in Memphis and Alexandria by a Roman emperor in Rome, the status of Greek culture and art, if anything, increased. However, multiple cultural influences were t play, and their reconciliation differed, depending on the identity of the patron and on whether personal, public, religious, or funerary purposes were in question. This type of lead-glazed terracotta vessel was made at a workshop in southern or western Turkey, probably in Tarsus, and so was surely imported for some household in Egypt.
Amsterdam, brandspuitpenning van wijk 58 met no. 10
Object type: medal
Date: 1680 – 1800
Materials: brass
Techniques: engraving
Location: amsterdam
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: amsterdam

Messing vierkante penning met afgeschuinde hoeken. Voorzijde: gekroond wapenschild, geflankeerd door twee leeuwen; afsnede: opschrift: wijk 58. Keerzijde: brandspuit onder cartouche met opschrift no. 10.
Portret van Johann Strauss jr.
Object type: photomechanical print
Materials: paper
Techniques: woodburytype
Location: france
Subjects: composer
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Journal Hebdomadaire paraissant le Jeudi, Du 8 au 14 Février 1877’, number: ‘Numéro 195’
The Actor Osagawa Tsuneyo II as Onoe no Mae in the Play Date Nishiki Tsui no Yumitori, Performed at the Morita Theater in the Eleventh Month, 1778
Object type: print
Date: 1778 – 1778
Techniques: woodblock print
Location: japan
Artist: katsukawa shunsho 勝川 春章
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: japanese
Artist dates: 1726 – 1792
Saint Bartholomew
Object type: panel
Date: 1410 – 1410
Materials: glass, metal, paint
Culture: austrian
Subjects: men,saints
Portret van een jonge vrouw, staand bij een stoel
Object type: carte de visite
Date: 1880 – 1920
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: collodion silver print
Location: netherlands
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: historical persons - bb - woman, standing figure - aa - female human figure, chair
Cover for 'Canciones Modernas para 1898: Los Parranderos', group of men holding a banner and singing
Object type: print
Date: 1898 – 1898
Materials: metal, paper
Techniques: engraving, letterpress, printing
Artist: josé guadalupe posada
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: mexican
Artist dates: 1852 – 1913
Subjects: men,singing
Wedding socks
Object type: wedding sock
Date: 1851 – 1851
Materials: silk
Culture: american
Drie vrouwen in kimono in een tuin, Japan
Object type: photomechanical print
Date: 1900 – 1920
Materials: paper
Techniques: photograph, hand coloring
Location: japan
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: adult woman (+ three persons), folk costume, regional costume

Deze prent maakt deel uit van een album.
"Bahram Gur in the Blue Pavilion", Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Nizami of Ganja
Object type: folio from an illustrated manuscript
Date: 1501 – 1533
Materials: gold, ink, paper, watercolor
Location: iran
Artist: nizami
Artist role: author
Artist dates: 1141 – 1209
Subjects: buildings,kings,women
May Leicester, from the Actors and Actresses series (N45, Type 1) for Virginia Brights Cigarettes
Object type: photograph
Date: 1888 – 1888
Techniques: albumen silver print
Artist: allen & ginter
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Subjects: portraits,profiles,women,actresses,mirrors

Trade cards from the "Actors and Actresses" series (N45, Type 1), issued ca. 1888 by Allen & Ginter to promote Virginia Brights, Dixie, Our Little Beauties and Opera Puffs Cigarettes.
Obelisk
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1546 – 1546
Materials: paper
Techniques: letterpress printing
Location: paris
Subjects: obelisk, needle, (scenes from) specific works of literature: colonna, hypnerotomachia poliphili

Prent uit: Colonna, Francesco. Hypnerotomachie ou discours du songe de Poliphile, deduisant comme amour le combat a l'occasion de Polia. Parijs: Jacques Kerver, 1546, recto fol. 85.
Petrus wordt uit de gevangenis bevrijd
Object type: print
Date: 1657 – 1657
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: netherlands
Subjects: prison, jail, an angel appears, summoning peter to wake up ~ peter in prison
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Petrus ligt in de gevangenis, de bewakers slapen. Een engel maakt Petrus wakker. Een engeltje houdt een brandende kaars vast. Onder de voorstelling een vers in twee kolommen van elk twee regels in het Nederlands.
Brief aan Jan Veth
Object type: letter
Date: 1886 – 1886
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: pen, writing
Artist: wally moes
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1856 – 1918
Subjects: painter, designer, jan veth, painting (including book-illumination, miniature-painting), historical persons (portraits and scenes from the life)
Inscriptions: watermark, collector's mark: ‘RPK’
Study with Brigands (Lower Section)
Object type: print
Date: 1633 – 1633
Techniques: etching
Artist: claude lorrain (claude gellée)
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1604 – 1682
Subjects: men
Schlaf, kindlein, schlaf
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1878 – 1927
Materials: paper
Techniques: wood engraving, letterpress printing
Location: london
Subjects: interior of the house, cradle, crib, mother and baby or young child
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Prent uit: The baby's bouquet, a fresh bunch of old rhymes and tunes. Londen: Routledge & Sons, [1878]. Of een latere uitgave.
The Very Reverend Dr. Jowett (Master of Balliol, Oxford)
Object type: photograph
Techniques: photogravure
Location: england
Artist: julia margaret cameron
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british, born india
Artist dates: 1815 – 1879
Subjects: collected by hugh edwards, lord tennyson and his friends
Bertel Thorvaldsen (1768–1844) with the Bust of Horace Vernet
Object type: painting
Materials: canvas, oil
Artist: horace vernet
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1789 – 1863
Subjects: sculpture,men,portraits,artists
Two Border Fragments
Object type: textile
Date: 1567 – 1633
Materials: linen, silk, thread
Techniques: embroidery, treatment, embroidered, weave, stitching
Location: spain
Subjects: cherubs, flowers, urns
Aigentliche wahrhaffte Delineation unnd Abbildung aller fürstlichen Auffzüg und Rütterspilen
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1618 – 1618
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Subjects: performance in the open air (pleasure fair), horses (circus performance)

Genummerd: 53. Deze prent maakt deel uit van een album.
Triomfwagen bij het 1000-jarig feest van de H. Rombout, 1775
Object type: print
Date: 1775 – 1775
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: southern netherlands
Subjects: float ~ triumph, the hermit, martyr, and possibly former bishop of dublin, rum(b)old (rombaut) of malines; possible attributes: axe, hoe - apotheosis, glory, triumph of male saint, mechelen
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Gebruikt als illustratie in: Description de la cavalcade (...) qui, á l'occasion du jubilé millenaire de saint Rombaut (...) sera exécutée les 26. & 27. de juin, 3. & 10. de juillet 1775. Mechelen: Joannes Franciscus vander Elst, 1775.
Frederik Muller beschrijft deze optocht in 1775 als de herdenking van de 400ste sterfdag van de H. Rombout. De heilige is echter gestorven in 775, dus betreft het de duizendste verjaardag van het overlijden van de heilige.
Portret van Willem III, prins van Oranje
Object type: print
Date: 1670 – 1674
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: antwerp
Subjects: william iii (prince of orange and king of england, scotland, and ireland), knighthood order (garter) - insignia of a knighthood order, e.g.: badge, chain

Portret van Willem III in een ovaal met randschrift in het Frans. Midden onder zijn wapen met een kroon, gedecoreerd met de Kousenband en het devies van de Orde van de Kousenband. In de bovenmarge een regel Latijnse tekst. In de ondermarge vier regels Nederlandse tekst.
Barneveld. Westerveldstichting
Object type: ansichtkaart, prentbriefkaart
Date: 1905 – 1930
Materials: cardboard
Techniques: photograph, lithograph
Location: barneveld
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: fence, wall, paling, villa
Amphora
Object type: amphora
Date: 600 – 480
Materials: terracotta
Culture: cypriot

Bands and a wavy line in black; red band about lip.
Standing Ceramic Figure
Object type: figure
Date: 201 – 500
Materials: ceramic
Culture: moche
Location: peru
Subjects: human figures
Military helmet
Object type: military helmet
Date: 1890 – 1899
Materials: leather, metal, wool
Culture: american
Portret van keizer Wilhelm I van Duitsland
Object type: lakdoos
Date: 1870 – 1890
Materials: lacquer, paper, wood
Techniques: albumen print, hand coloring, lacquer
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: wilhelm i (keizer van duitsland), historical persons, emperor

Langwerpige lakdoos met op het deksel het portret van keizer Wilhelm I.
Portret van Hans Carl von Winterfeld
Object type: print
Date: 1717 – 1765
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: berlin
Artist: johann georg schmidt
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1694 – 1767
Subjects: historical persons, armorial bearing, heraldry
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Card Number 235, Adelaide Emerson, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-7) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes
Object type: photograph
Date: 1880 – 1889
Techniques: albumen silver print
Artist: w. duke, sons & co.
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1870 – 1920
Subjects: portraits,women,rowing,actresses,boats
Table
Object type: table
Date: 1401 – 1500
Materials: iron, wood
Culture: french
Portret van een jongen in communiepak, staand bij een stoel
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1860 – 1900
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: collodion silver print
Location: belgium
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: first communion, boy (child between toddler and youth), historical persons
Sociteits Tent
Object type: print
Date: 1860 – 1860
Materials: paper
Techniques: tone lithography
Location: the hague
Subjects: storm on land

Een omgewaaide boom bij de Sociëteits Tent, na de storm. Onderdeel van het album met tien losse steendrukken in een papieren omslag met voorstellingen van de schade aangericht door de 'Pinksterstorm' van 28 mei 1860 in het Haagse Bos en omgeving.
Schetsen van kinderen
Object type: drawing
Date: 1848 – 1888
Materials: chalk, paper
Artist: anton mauve
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1838 – 1888
Ba bird
Object type: ba bird
Materials: paint, wood
Location: egypt
Trade card for C.W. Dix, Printer and Engraver
Object type: print, trade card
Date: 1801 – 1900
Techniques: etching
Artist: anonymous, british, 18th century
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: british
Artist dates: 1700 – 1800

This object is housed in an album of British trade cards from the collections of Bella C. Landauer, Ambrose Heal, and others. The term “trade card” is of nineteenth-century origin and refers to a card that advertises the services of an individual or business. Eighteenth-century trade cards were often printed on thin sheets of paper and referred to as “tradesmen’s cards,” “tradesmen’s bills,” or “shopkeeper’s bills.” During the Victorian era, trade cards were often reinforced on pasteboard and closely resemble business cards today.