1740

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Source:

Title: London Trade Card by George Beacher
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Printer: George Beacher
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Location: London
Year: 1740
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Description of the the British Museum: ‘Trade card of George Beacher, printer at the Bible and Crown, Drury Lane London, showing his workshop with a man turning the wheel of a press while a client examines a freshly printed broadside watched by an older man, presumably Beacher himself. Prints hang from strings above the press and an engraved portrait is attached to the wall; in the foreground are bales of paper labelled, ‘Royal’, ‘Imperial’, and ‘Atlas’; to the left, the inking table beneath a window; in the background beyond an open door, is a man at the top of a staircase with another bale of paper on his head. The scene is surrounded by an elaborate frame, at the top of which is Beacher’s shop sign, a crown surmounting a bible, and below: George Beacher Copper-Plate-Printer at the Bible and Crown in Drury Lane facing Long Acre London Carefully Prints all manner of Copper Plates For Printsellers Booksellers Stationers &c Tickets for Balls, Plays, Funerals.’

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Engraving