John C. Onions trade card
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Type of record: Archive
Title: John C. Onions trade card
Classmark: MS 2241/4/3/139
Creator(s): John Collingwood Onions
Site Location(s): Based in - Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom( 52.4814, -1.89983 )
Date(s): c.1854
Size and medium: 1 trade card
Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/jfpqvh5y
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/721450
Collection group(s): Art and Antique Market | John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History
Description
Pictorial 19th century chromolithographed trade card of John C. Onions [John Collingwood Onions] depicting elaborate ornamental library bellows in pink ink. Trader details in green ink. Printed copy of complimentary letter from the French Emperor on the reverse.
Transcription of obverse: ORNAMENTAL LIBRARY BELLOWS. IN THE POSSESSION OF THE IMPERIAL MAJESTY THE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH. DESIGNED AND WROUGHT BY JOHN C. ONIONS, FORGE-BELLOWS MANUFACTURER TO HER MAJESTY'S HON. BOARD OF ORDNANCE, BRADFORD STREET, BIRMINGHAM. [OVER.
Transcription of reverse: AUTOGRAPH LETTER FROM THE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH TO MR. JOHN C. ONIONS. [TRANSLATION] "Palace of the Tuileries, May 23, 1854. Sire- I accept with pleasure the product of your industry, to which the perfection of workmanship, no less than the rarity of the material, gives a particular value : and I feel much the graceful attention you have shown in presenting it to me. Receive, then, Sire, with my thanks, and as a slight mark of my satisfaction, the Gold Medal with my Portrait thereon, which accompanies this letter. To Mr. John C. Onions, Bradford Street, Birmingham."
Physical characteristics
Technique: chromolithograph
Medium: print
Support: pasteboard
Object: width 93mm height 122mm
Access and usage
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