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Blythe, Hamilton & Hughes trade card

Archive Item: MS 2241/4/2/26 Contains digital media

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Type of record: Archive

Title: Blythe, Hamilton & Hughes trade card

Level: Item

Classmark: MS 2241/4/2/26

Creator(s): Blythe, Hamilton & Hughes; Eastman & Yeo

Site Location(s): Based in - London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom( 51.5085, -0.12574 )

Date(s): 1841-1845

Size and medium: 1 trade card

Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/pxdtgrfc

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/718668

Collection group(s): Art and Antique Market | John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History

Description

Pictorial 19th century engraved trade card of Blythe, Hamilton & Hughes. Trader details in a variety of typefaces with decorative flourishes. Large image fills reverse of card, depicting Elizabeth Street Manufactory with smoking chimneys and figures in foreground.


Transcription of obverse: BLYTH, HAMILTON & HUGHES. Bed Feather, Horse Hair & Rugging MANUFACTURERS. No. 52, Little Britain, LONDON. Bed Feathers purified BY STEAM on an entirely new principle, WARRANTED fit for immediate use. CARPETS OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS.


Transcription of reverse: MANUFACTORY, Elizabeth Street, Hackney Road. BEDS, MATTRASSES [MATTRESSES], PALLIASSES, MADE TO ORDER. Eastman & Yeo, Cheapside

Physical characteristics

Technique: engraving

Medium: print

Support: pasteboard

Object: width 90mm height 62mm

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