deem-data/ArtiFact huggingface dataset:
Drie ongeidenificeerde vrouwen, 1880-1930
Object type: photograph
Date: 1880 – 1930
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Artist: Anonymous
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Lieber Onkel Gern wären wir pünkt- lich zu Deinem Geburts- tag eingetroffen, aber wir waren noch nicht ganz so weit!_ Herzl. Grüsse v.U. Hernn Albert Levi Hechlingen Hohenzollern’
Gezicht op de Porte d'Aix in Marseille, Frankrijk
Object type: stereoscopic photograph
Date: 1860 – 1870
Materials: glass, paper
Techniques: slide
Location: marseille
Subjects: triumphal arch
Inscriptions: number: ‘2441’
Afschrift van een brief aan Frederik van Eeden
Object type: letter
Materials: ink, paper
Techniques: typewriting
Location: bussum
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: frederik van eeden, historical persons (portraits and scenes from the life)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘RPK’
Portret van Moritz Hoffmann
Object type: print
Date: 1698 – 1732
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Subjects: further education (+ portrait of teacher, professor), historical persons, physician, doctor (+ portrait of scholar, scientist)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2233
Portret van Georg Friedrich Treitschke
Object type: print
Date: 1841 – 1841
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Subjects: vienna, theatre, theatrical performance, historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Avenhorn/ Hensbroek / Watwey / Westblokker
Object type: print
Date: 1732 – 1732
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: amsterdam
Artist: abraham zeeman
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1695 – 1754
Subjects: prospect of village, silhouette of village, church (exterior)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Vier voorstellingen op een blad. Linksboven: Gezicht op het dorp Avenhorn. Linksonder: Gezicht op de kerk van Hensbroek. Rechtsboven: Gezicht op de kerk van Wadway. Rechtsonder: Gezicht op de kerk van Westerblokker.
Roof van Helena
Object type: print
Date: 1653 – 1654
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: amsterdam
Subjects: (story of) hecuba, the abduction of helen and some of her companions: paris carries them off by sea, and takes a part of the palace-treasure with him, sagittarius (zodiacal sign of november)

Haven met de roof van Helena. Helena wordt door twee mannen naar een boot gevoerd. Onder de voorstelling de tekst uit de Metamorfosen van Ovidius, boek 12, versregels 5-6. Bovenaan het teken van de Boogschutter uit de dierenriem. De prent maakt deel uit van een album. De toelichting bij de prent op een ander albumblad beschrijft deze voorstelling als Hekabe en de val van Troje.
George Washington
Object type: bust
Date: 1830 – 1883
Materials: bronze
Location: france
Artist: achille collas
Artist role: maker
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1795 – 1859
Subjects: george washington,men,portraits
Kerkvader Gregorius de Grote
Object type: print
Date: 1586 – 1586
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: antwerp
Subjects: st. gregory the great as doctor of the latin church, with book, pen, and dove (divine inspiration)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

De H. Gregorius de Grote zit in zijn studeervertrek aan een tafel. Hij bladert in een opengeslagen boek. Hij draagt het pauselijk gewaad en de tiara, en houdt de pontificale kruisstaf vast. In het kader in de marge een vierregelig onderschrift in het Latijn.
Portret van Johann De Caro
Object type: print
Date: 1780 – 1832
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: berlin
Subjects: historical persons
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Annunciatie
Object type: book illustration
Date: 1650 – 1653
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: antwerp
Artist: cornelis galle (ii)
Artist role: print maker
Artist dates: 1615 – 1678
Subjects: the annunciation: mary, usually reading, is visited by the angel (sometimes a woman overhears the conversation)
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240

Maria knielt voor een lessenaar, haar vinger in een boek. De engel verkondigt haar de geboorte van haar zoon. Hij wijst op de Heilige Geest in de gedaante van een duif die boven hem zweeft. Engelen strooien rozenblaadjes op Maria.
Bronze patera (shallow bowl with handle)
Object type: patera with wolf head handle
Date: 1 – 33
Materials: bronze
Culture: roman

This finely worked and ornate vessel was used for serving food or drink at dinner parties or for pouring libations at religious ceremonies. Such high-quality bronze paterae often have a wolf or ram's head finial to the handle.
Study of a Peasant Girl
Object type: drawing and watercolor
Materials: charcoal, paper
Location: france
Artist: camille roqueplan
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1803 – 1855
The man wot knows how to get up the steam
Object type: print
Date: 1845 – 1845
Materials: paper
Techniques: tone lithography
Location: london
Subjects: political caricatures and satires

Portret van George Hudson, staande bij een spreekgestoelte. Uitgegeven als nr. 850 in de serie HB Sketches.
Barber's Bowl
Object type: metalwork
Date: 1680 – 1680
Materials: pewter
Location: london
Artist: william allen
Tuin of park in Nederlands-Indië
Object type: photograph
Date: 1890 – 1920
Materials: paper, cardboard
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Location: dutch east indies
Artist: Anonymous
Subjects: park, garden, dutch east indies, the
Mlle. Deschamps, from the Actors and Actresses series (N145-8) issued by Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke Cigarettes
Object type: photograph
Date: 1891 – 1891
Techniques: albumen silver print
Artist: w. duke, sons & co.
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1870 – 1920
Subjects: portraits,women,actresses

Trade cards from the set "Actors and Actresses" (N145-8), issued in the 1880s by W. Duke Sons & Co. to promote Duke 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 eighth subset, N145-8. Note that actors' names are spelled differently on cards throughout set and are not dependable for accuracy.
Benediction veil
Object type: veil
Date: 1745 – 1760
Techniques: lace
Subjects: madonna and child
Cameo of John J. Francis
Object type: decorative art
Date: 1846 – 1849
Materials: plaster, silver gilt
Location: albany
Artist: erastus dow palmer
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1817 – 1904
Twee soldaten aan de voet van een trap
Object type: print
Date: 1824 – 1869
Materials: paper
Techniques: aquatint, drypoint, etching
Artist: corneille seghers
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1814 – 1869
Subjects: stairwell, private soldier
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Hoogwaardigheidsbekleders aan het Hof van Djokja, zittend in een interieur
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1925 – 1925
Materials: paper, pencil
Location: indonesia
Artist: marius bauer
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1867 – 1932
Subjects: sitting figure, folk costume, regional costume, interior ~ representation of a building, dignitary at court
Inscriptions: kleurnotitie, handgeschreven

Pagina 27 uit een schetsboek met 74 bladen.
Portret van Marquard Freher
Object type: print
Date: 1747 – 1747
Materials: paper
Techniques: mezzotint
Location: augsburg
Artist: johann jacob haid
Artist role: print maker, publisher
Artist dates: 1704 – 1767
Subjects: historical persons, pendant, trinket, 'breloque'
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

Prent gebruikt voor: Brucker, Jacob. Ehrentempel der Deutschen Gelehrsamkeit. Augsburg: Johann Jacob Haid, 1747.
Galleria Giustiniana del Marchese Vincenzo Giustiniani II
Object type: print
Date: 1636 – 1647
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: rome
Artist: theodor matham
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1605 – 1676
Subjects: male persons from classical history (+ head, bust, etc.), piece of sculpture, reproduction of a piece of sculpture

Twee bustes van filosofen. Boven de buste van Antisthenes en onder van Cleisthenes. Op beide bustes het wapenschild van Vincenzo Giustiniani. Prent maakt deel uit van een album met een serie prenten naar de sculpturen in de verzameling in de Galleria Giustiniani te Rome.
Shorwell
Object type: photograph
Date: 1859 – 1869
Materials: photographic support
Techniques: albumen print
Location: shorwell
Artist: william russell sedgfield
Artist role: fotograaf
Artist dates: 1826 – 1902
Subjects: church (exterior), public gardens, park
Vase with Three Handles
Object type: vase
Date: 1895 – 1895
Materials: glaze, stoneware
Techniques: firing, vitrification
Location: bourg-la-reine
Artist: pierre adrien dalpayrat
Artist dates: 1844 – 1910
Inscriptions: mark: ‘een ingestempelde vlammende kogel’

Vaas van steengoed met drie oren op een hoge inspringende voet en een slanke hals. Bedekt met een rode, geel gevlekte, glazuur. De oren zijn geheel geel. In de bodem zit een rond gat. De vaas in gemerkt met een ingestempelde vlammende kogel aan de buitenzijde van de voetrand.
Pint Mug
Object type: pint mug
Date: 1770 – 1770
Materials: pewter
Culture: american
Location: united states
La prison d'Édimbourg.
Object type: print
Date: 1844 – 1844
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: france
Artist: charles emile jacque
Artist role: draughtsman, painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1813 – 1894
Subjects: adult woman, water course
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 964

Prent uit: Oeuvres de Walter Scott. Parijs: Firmin-Didot, 1844.
Unguent Vessel with Lid
Object type: vessel
Materials: mineral, stone
Culture: egyptian
Location: egypt
Terracotta fragment of a neck-amphora (jar)
Object type: neck amphora fragment
Date: 520 – 510
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

At the left, tendrils and stem from a palmette; forelegs of a horse to right; part of the lower torso, legs, and extended arm, of a Scythian archer, with a quiver, to right, wearing a garment patterned with x's; forelegs of a horse to left; below the figures; three black glaze lines; a wide band of black glaze; a frieze of upright lotus buds; and a band of black glaze
Terracotta fragment of a lekythos (oil flask)
Object type: lekythos fragment
Date: 550 – 526
Materials: terracotta
Culture: greek, attic

On the shoulder, an unidentified object; below, warrior to right, with a machaira, grabbing the back of the head of a figure to right; part of an inscription, ELILPI...?
Houten doosje bij munt Het Rembrandt Vijfje
Object type: box
Materials: metal, paper, velvet, wood
Location: utrecht
Subjects: leiden, amsterdam, painter, print maker, draughtsman, rembrandt van rijn, netherlands
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘Eerste slag Rembrandt Vijfje<BR />Juli 2006 te Leiden’, inscription: ‘Koninklijke Nederlandse Munt’

Houten doosje met scharnierend deksel met opschrift. Onderzijde mosgroen fluweel. Binnenzijde blauw fluweel met uitsparing voor munt en in de deksel een uitsparing met elastiek voor inlegvelletje waarop informatie over de munt.
Brug over een kanaal
Object type: sketchbook leaf
Date: 1909 – 1919
Materials: chalk, paper
Location: katwijk aan zee
Artist: willem cornelis rip
Artist role: draughtsman, painter
Artist dates: 1856 – 1922
Subjects: city-view, and landscape with man-made constructions, canals, waters (in city), bridge
Inscriptions: date: ‘3 Sept/ 1919’

Mogelijk het Prins Hendrikkanaal te Katwijk-aan-Zee. Blad 2 verso en 3 recto uit een schetsboek met 42 bladen.
Guanyin as the Nine-Lotus Bodhisattva
Object type: hanging scroll
Date: 1593 – 1593
Materials: ink, silk
Culture: chinese
Artist: unidentified artist
Artist role: artist
Subjects: lotuses,buddhism,bodhisattvas

In the summer of 1586, nine lotus flowers in the Ming imperial palace issued double blooms, a rare occurrence that was seen as an auspicious omen. That the flowers bloomed in the residence of the Empress Dowager Cisheng, mother of the emperor, was particularly favorable, for Cisheng was a devout Buddhist who had dreamed of her own incarnation as Guanyin. This painting is one of several Cisheng commissioned to celebrate the occasion. The composition, which places the boy pilgrim Shancai (Sudhana, in Sanskrit) before a maternal bodhisattva in a palace setting, strongly suggests that we are meant to see Cisheng as Guanyin. The square red seals in the upper left belong to Cisheng and her son, Emperor Wanli.
The Triumph of the Sea-Gods
Object type: print
Date: 1520 – 1525
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving
Location: germany
Artist: albrecht altdorfer
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: german
Artist dates: 1480 – 1538
Beautiful Scene Pavilion
Object type: ink tablet
Date: 1867 – 1933
Materials: ink
Culture: chinese
Artist: jian guzhai
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: chinese
Subjects: dragons

This ink tablet is from a sixty-four-tablet set (30.76.216–.279) commissioned by the Jiaqing emperor from the Studio for Appreciating the Antique (Jiangu Zhai) manufactory of the Wang Jinsheng family in Huizhou, Anhui Province. Each ink tablet commemorates a hall or pavilion in one of the imperial gardens. Each site’s name is written in gilt characters on one side; a view of the site is presented on the other. Such inks were purely decorative and not intended for use.
"Ole Bull's Concert Room", No. 34 from the series "Mammoth Cave Views"
Object type: photograph
Date: 1866 – 1866
Techniques: albumen print
Location: new york
Artist: chas. waldack
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1860 – 1869

Text printed on reverse of stereocard:

"OLE BULL'S CONCERT ROOM."
Is a mile and a half beyond "Echo River" and five miles from the entrance. It is at the end of "Silliman's Avenue." The black gorge to the right is the entrance to the "Pass of El Ghor." The celebrated violinist performed in this room during his visit to the cave.
Het leven der Bacchanten
Object type: titelprent, frontispice
Date: 1725 – 1725
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: amsterdam
Artist: gerard melder
Artist role: painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1693 – 1754
Subjects: bacchanal: bacchus with his wine-flushed train (thiasos), trunked animals: elephant
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228

In het midden staat Bacchus op een voetstuk, waarvoor een altaar is geplaatst. Onder de Bacchanten en Saters bevindt zich rechts Silenus, op zijn ezel gezeten; links een groep vrouwen met een olifant.
Miss Terriss
Object type: carte de visite
Date: 1880 – 1915
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: woodburytype
Subjects: advertising, historical persons - bb - woman
Inscriptions: inscription: ‘(...)’, inscription: ‘Window & Grove. Baker Street./ Permanent Photo. COPYRIGHT. Waterlow & Sons Ld.’
Plymouth Harbor
Object type: drawing and watercolor
Materials: board, ink, paper
Techniques: brush, pen, wash
Location: france
Artist: joseph vernet
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1714 – 1789
Huis Snaatburg te Maarssen
Object type: print
Date: 1802 – 1802
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: netherlands
Artist: anthonie van den bos
Artist role: draughtsman, print maker
Artist dates: 1763 – 1838
Subjects: ruin of a dwelling, house, castle, etc.
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2228
Kelk van een kelkglas van filigraanglas
Object type: goblet
Date: 1896 – 1896
Materials: glass
Techniques: façon de venise, glassblowing, vetro a retorti
Location: venice
Artist: Anonymous

Trechtervormige, aan de onderzijde afgeronde kelk van filigraanglas a fili en a retortoli. De voet is afgebroken (BK-NM-10754-18-A).
Covered Porringer
Object type: metalwork
Date: 1825 – 1825
Materials: silver
Location: new york city
Artist: horace seymour hinsdale
Inscriptions: Marked on bottom: "T & H/C"; inscribed around lid: Ellen Maria McIlvaine from her Great grand Mother Anne T. Bancker of New York 1825"
Albani, from World's Beauties, Series 1 (N26) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes
Object type: print
Date: 1888 – 1888
Techniques: color lithograph
Artist: allen & ginter
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Subjects: women

Trade cards from "World's Beauties," Series 1 (N26), issued in 1888 in a set of 50 cards to promote Allen & Ginter brand cigarettes.
Jacht op wilde stieren
Object type: print
Date: 1598 – 1598
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: italy
Subjects: bull, hunter, hunters hunting (n.b.: in 1988-1990 this notation denoted the concept of 43c11421 'hunters resting during the hunt'), hunt ~ mammals
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘Hinloopen’, number: ‘5’

Landschap met jagers die jagen op wilde stieren. Op de voorgrond rechts een jager te paard die een stier steekt met zijn speer.
Textile
Object type: textile
Date: 1701 – 1800
Culture: china or japan
Teatro delle Nobili et Virtuose Donne..., page 23 (recto)
Object type: book print ornament architecture
Date: 1616 – 1616
Techniques: engraving, woodcut
Artist: isabella catanea parasole
Artist role: author
Artist nationality: italian
Artist dates: 1565 – 1625
Subjects: ornament

Written by Isabella Catanea Parasole, Italian, ca. 1575-ca. 1625, published by Mauritio Bona, Rome. From top to bottom, and left to right: Design composed of 4 horizontal registers that are framed on the left and right sides by borders decorated with diverse foliage patterns. First register is decorated with a wavy vine of an alternating pattern of a fleur-de-lis and another type of flower. Second register is decorated with 2 fleurs-de-lis, one is right-side up and the other is upside-down; there is a curving vine ornamented with diamonds and stripes that connect the 2 fleurs-de-lis. Third register is decorated with a pattern of flowers with curving striped stems. Fourth register is decorated with flowers in the shape of hearts with stems that coil outward.
Briefkaart aan Philip Zilcken
Object type: postcard
Date: 1915 – 1915
Materials: cardboard, ink
Techniques: pen, writing
Location: satigny
Artist: alphonse stengelin
Artist role: painter, print maker
Artist dates: 1852 – 1938
Subjects: roger louis de oberkampf dabrun, draughtsman, philip zilcken, the graphic arts, diseases
Inscriptions: collector's mark: ‘RPK’
Christus in de hof van Getsemane met twee engelen
Object type: print
Date: 1661 – 1661
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: france
Subjects: christ and his apostles on the mount of olives
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 240
Camel with Dionysian imagery on its saddle bags
Object type: tomb figure
Date: 567 – 700
Materials: earthenware, pigment
Techniques: appliqué, relief
Culture: chinese
Subjects: camels

This pottery model of a Bactrian camel may be a rare example of a Chinese-style tomb figure produced in eastern Central Asia. The identity of the central figure on the packboards is uncertain. He may represent the Indian Kubera, king of the yakshas, who is portrayed in drinking scenes being waited on by women. However, the full beard and absence of headgear are unusual in depictions of Kubera. Another interpretation of the scene is that the three figures were inspired by representations of the Descent from the Cross, an important theme in early Christian iconography that may have been transmitted along the Silk Road.
Rear Admiral William T. Sampson, U.S. Navy, from the "Generals" series (T63), issued by LeRoy Little Cigars
Object type: print
Date: 1898 – 1901
Techniques: color lithograph
Artist: leroy little cigars
Artist role: publisher
Artist nationality: american
Artist dates: 1850 – 1950

Tobacco insert card from the "Generals" series (T63), issued by LeRoy Little Cigars.
Vest van crème ripszijde, meerkleurig geborduurd met noppen, bloemen, bladranken en lambrequins met pailletten, gekleurde stenen en biezen van metaaldraad; achter wit linnen.
Object type: vest
Date: 1700 – 1800
Materials: glass, linen, metal thread, silk
Techniques: embroidered
Artist: Anonymous

Vest van roomkleurig ribzijde, geheel geborduurd met pailetten.
Reine de Joie
Object type: print
Date: 1892 – 1892
Materials: paper
Techniques: lithograph
Location: france
Artist: henri de toulouse-lautrec
Artist role: artist
Artist nationality: french
Artist dates: 1864 – 1901

This colorful poster publicized French author Victor Joze’s controversial novel Reine de joie (Queen of joy), which follows a young courtesan in Paris who convinces the wealthy Jewish banker Baron de Rosenfeld to compensate her with his money in exchange for her company. The fictional Rosenfeld was loosely based on the real Baron de Rothschild, andJoze played up anti-Semitic stereotypes of the 1890s that characterized Jewish bankers as greedy, dishonest, and unrefined. The book and poster inspired protests by Rosenfeld and his friends, who tore the posters off the walls of Paris's many bookshops.
Fredericus Henricus Illustrissimus Orangiae Princeps
Object type: print
Date: 1649 – 1649
Materials: paper
Techniques: engraving, etching
Location: haarlem
Subjects: london, mary henrietta stuart
Inscriptions: collector's mark: Lugt 2233

Portret van Maria Henrietta in een ovaal. In de ondermarge haar naam.
Horse Fitting with Doe
Object type: fitting
Date: 500 – 301
Materials: bronze
Culture: northwest chinese
Panoplia sev armamentarium…
Object type: print
Date: 1572 – 1572
Materials: paper
Techniques: etching
Location: netherlands
Subjects: musical instruments; group of musical instruments, trophy, i.e.: decorative arrangement of symbolic or typical objects ~ ornament
Inscriptions: : ‘.’

Drie verticale trofeeën met muziekinstrumenten: tokkel- en strijkinstrumenten, fluiten, doedelzak, orgel, citer en clavichord. Uit serie, bestaande uit een titelblad en 16 bladen.
Glass amphoriskos (perfume bottle)
Object type: amphoriskos
Date: 100 – 1
Materials: glass
Culture: greek, cypriot

Translucent light blue; opaque yellow and white trail; handles and knob base in translucent yellowish green. Inward-sloping rim-disk; thick-walled neck, tapering slightly downward, then expanding to join sloping shoulder; elongated ovoid body, tapering in to pointed bottom, with applied knob base; two strap handles applied to shoulder and upper part of neck. Trails applied at rim, drawn down in a spiral around neck, across shoulder, down body and trailed off at bottom, with plain spiral at top and bottom, but tooled into an even, narrow festoon pattern around sides with 25 upward strokes. Yellow applied first and white overlaid. Broken and repaired around rim and neck with some areas missing; knob base and both handles missing; a few bubbles; slight dulling, pitting, and iridescent weathering. Very narrow opening at base of neck
Piece
Object type: piece
Date: 1401 – 1600
Materials: metal thread, silk
Maconnieke token voor een penny uit Birmingham, Engeland, 1794
Object type: penny
Date: 1794 – 1794
Materials: copper
Techniques: striking

Koperen particuliere munt. Voorzijde: door twee vossen gehouden wapenschild, waaronder wapenspreuk. Keerzijde: driehoek, waarin maconnieke tekens. Randschrift.
Netsuke of Ono no Komachi (834–900)
Object type: netsuke
Date: 1867 – 1900
Materials: wood
Culture: japanese
Subjects: women
Koninklijke Familie op de verjaardag van Juliana, 1940
Object type: album leaf
Date: 1940 – 1940
Materials: cardboard, photographic support
Techniques: gelatin silver print
Subjects: utrecht, bernhard (prins der nederlanden), beatrix (koningin der nederlanden), juliana of the netherlands, parents with their children
Inscriptions: date: ‘Verjaardag v. H.K.H. Prinses Juliana. 30 Apr. '40’

Albumblad met een foto van de Koninklijke Familie in een auto op de verjaardag van prinses Juliana, 30 april 1940. Onderdeel van fotoalbum over het familieleven van de leden van het Koninklijk Huis tussen 1937-1945.
Trade Card for H. Fisher, Engraver and Copper Plate Printer
Object type: print, trade card
Date: 1701 – 1800
Techniques: engraving
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.