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Allegorical Devices

Engraving
1795 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Engraving of title page for an album of allegorical devices designed and engraved by Garnet Terry for the proprietors Bowles and Carver. The album consists of two-hundred designs.

Beneath the title, a man and woman sit at a table underneath an arbor. The man shows the woman a pattern book with small oval designs.

Object details

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Object type
Titles
  • Allegorical Devices (popular title)
  • A book of new & allegorical devices, for artists in general, & particularly for jewellers, enamel painters, pattern drawers &c. containing two hundred elegant historical ornamental and fancied subjects (published title)
Materials and techniques
Ink on paper
Brief description
Engraving by Garnet Terry. Title page for "Allegorical Devices" London, 1795.
Physical description
Engraving of title page for an album of allegorical devices designed and engraved by Garnet Terry for the proprietors Bowles and Carver. The album consists of two-hundred designs.

Beneath the title, a man and woman sit at a table underneath an arbor. The man shows the woman a pattern book with small oval designs.
Dimensions
  • Height: 26cm
  • Width: 20.5cm
Production
Price 7s 6d. London: Printed for the Proprietors, Bowles & Carver No. 69 St. Paul's Church Yard. Just Published Terry's Complete Round of Cyphers, consisting of 600 examples. Price 6s.
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Accession number
E.3379-1903

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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