Rococo Trade Card John Savell Tobacco Pipe Maker London Circa.1770

Rococo Trade Card John Savell Tobacco Pipe Maker London Circa.1770Rare 18th. Century Copper Engraved Trade Card for John Savell Tobacco Pipe Maker in Featherstone Street near Moorfields London. Makes & Sells all Sorts of Pipes for Sea or Land, at Reasonable Rates. Text set within a Rococo cartouche with pipes and Masonic symbols. Printed on laid paper two old horizontal folds, mounted onto backing light foxing, with collection label of Ambrose Heal. Noted authority on London shops and trades. Ref. BM collection Heal

Dealtry loved liberty

and I look more like a horse

Noted late 18th

Century French literary society

Circle of Cornelis Corneliszoon

This intimately scaled drawing may relate to an as yet unidentified frontispiece

Signed and dated 1785

while William was intelligent but overly serious

Century watercolour drawing

Beyond that very little is known

1926-2005)

12 Pochoir plates