Buy A Bonnet Box
Watercolour
1804 (made)
1804 (made)
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This watercolour shows a man selling band-boxes outside a Bond Street bookshop. It is one of 31 similar works which William Marshall Craig (c.1750-c.1828) produced to illustrate Modern London, a guide book published by Richard Phillips in 1804. The V&A already possesses 10 watercolours from the series.
The bookshop shown in this watercolour was owned by Benjamin Tabart (1767/8-1833), who also ran his specialist children's publishing company, The Juvenile & School Library, from the premises. As fellow publishers and possibly former business partners, Tabart and Richard Phillips were closely connected: advertising, selling and even reprinting one another's books. That Craig was instructed to illustrate Tabart's shop was evidently a friendly gesture on Phillips' part; probably he hoped to offer his colleague a bit of free publicity.
The bookshop shown in this watercolour was owned by Benjamin Tabart (1767/8-1833), who also ran his specialist children's publishing company, The Juvenile & School Library, from the premises. As fellow publishers and possibly former business partners, Tabart and Richard Phillips were closely connected: advertising, selling and even reprinting one another's books. That Craig was instructed to illustrate Tabart's shop was evidently a friendly gesture on Phillips' part; probably he hoped to offer his colleague a bit of free publicity.
Object details
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| Title | Buy A Bonnet Box (assigned by artist) |
| Materials and techniques | Water-colour, pen and ink on paper |
| Brief description | Watercolour by William Marshall Craig showing a man selling hat boxes on Bond Street, London. Reproduced as an aquatint in Richard Phillips' 'Modern London' of 1804. |
| Physical description | Watercolour showing a man carrying a variety of hat boxes strung on a pole. He is passing a bookshop, above which is a plaque reading 'Bond Street'. The name of the shop is given as the 'Biblioteque d'Education' and there is a signboard reading 'Juvenile/ & School/ Library/ B.Tabart' |
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| Production type | Unique |
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| Credit line | Given by Pat Schleger according to Judy Brook's wishes and in her memory |
| Production | Attribution note: Intended for engraving as a book illustration |
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| Summary | This watercolour shows a man selling band-boxes outside a Bond Street bookshop. It is one of 31 similar works which William Marshall Craig (c.1750-c.1828) produced to illustrate Modern London, a guide book published by Richard Phillips in 1804. The V&A already possesses 10 watercolours from the series. The bookshop shown in this watercolour was owned by Benjamin Tabart (1767/8-1833), who also ran his specialist children's publishing company, The Juvenile & School Library, from the premises. As fellow publishers and possibly former business partners, Tabart and Richard Phillips were closely connected: advertising, selling and even reprinting one another's books. That Craig was instructed to illustrate Tabart's shop was evidently a friendly gesture on Phillips' part; probably he hoped to offer his colleague a bit of free publicity. |
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| Accession number | E.857-2000 |
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| Record created | September 29, 2000 |
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