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Trade Card

1830 (printed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Wood-engraving, trade label, lettered with names, address and other information.


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Wood-engraving
Brief description
Wood-engraving, trade-label of J. & T. Sharp, gunpowder makers, 1830
Physical description
Wood-engraving, trade label, lettered with names, address and other information.
Dimensions
  • Height: 4in
  • Width: 4.875in
Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1949. London: HMSO, 1961.
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Extra Superfine Sporting Guildford Gunpowder '
  • 'Whiting Patentee Beaufort House Strand London.'
  • (dated in pencil)
    Transliteration
    1830
Credit line
Bequeathed by G. H. Gabb
Subjects depicted
Place depicted
Bibliographic reference
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1949. London: HMSO, 1961.
Collection
Accession number
E.71-1949

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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