Coade's Lithodipyra or Artificial Stone Manufactory trade card (advertisement)
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Type of record: Archive
Title: Coade's Lithodipyra or Artificial Stone Manufactory trade card (advertisement)
Classmark: MS 2241/4/2/82
Creator(s): Eleanor Coade; Robert Bateman Wray; Charles Reuben Ryley
Site Location(s): Based in - London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom( 51.5085, -0.12574 )
Date(s): c.1784
Size and medium: 1 trade card (advertisement)
Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/d21t5vqm
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/718724
Collection group(s): Art and Antique Market | John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History
Description
Highly pictorial 18th century engraved trade card (advertisement) of Coade's Lithodipyra or Artificial Stone Manufactory. Lithodipyra means 'stone twice fired'. Large image filling card depicting classical figures, with Time being pushed by female personification of fire holding lit torch wearing belt inscribed with 'ignea vis', Latin for 'fiery force'. Kiln in background with inscription 'nec edax abolere vetustas', Latin for 'nor the gnawing tooth of time', contains statue of the Three Graces, daughters of Zeus. Trader details inscribed on stone. Engraving also appears as title print in Coade's catalogue.
Transcription: COADE'S, LITHODIPYRA or ARTIFICIAL STONE MANUFACTORY. For all kind of Statues, Capitals, Vases, Tombs, Coats of Arms, & Architectural ornaments &c. &c. particularly exprefsed [expressed] in Catalogues, & Books of Prints of 800 Articles & upwards, Sold at the Manufactory near Kings Arms Stairs, Narrow Wall Lambeth, opposite Whitehall Stairs, & at Mr Strahan's Bookseller, No 67 Strand, London. C. R. Ryley delt. R. Wray, Sculp.
Physical characteristics
Technique: engraving
Medium: print
Support: pasteboard
Object: width 133mm height 106mm
Access and usage
Access
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