Accession No

3738

Brief Description

trade card advertisement for Edmund Culpeper, English, 1710 (c)

Origin

England; London; Middle-Moore-Fields [aka Moorfields]; the Cross-Daggers

Maker

Culpeper, Edmund

Class

ephemera; prints

Earliest Date

1700

Latest Date

1731

Inscription Date

Material

paper

Dimensions

height 427mm; breadth 299mm (including frame)

Special Collection

Heywood collection

Provenance

Purchased from Anthony Turner, 1990. From Harold Heywood Collection (08/1973).

Inscription

‘At the Old Mathematical -Shop, the Cross-Daggers in Middle-Moore-Fields,
are Made and Sold by E. Culpeper....’

Description Notes

print, trade card advertisement for Edmund Culpeper, English, 1710 (c).

Small sheet printed on one side; top half covered with a crossed daggers design surrounded by drawings of various instruments. Text (advertising the shop) fills the rest of the page. Torn on left-hand side. Mounted and framed.

Condition: fair; complete.

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