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print, trade-card
Description
English: Trade card of J Thompson, taxidermist, at No. 16 Castle Street, Long Acre, London; oval with ornamental support and embellishments, with lettering at centre; standing on the supports, at left a lion, at right a large spotted cat; the oval surmounted by a seated monkey holding a pole; a parrot and an owl perched on curlicues to either side. c.1786
Etching with engraving
Depicted people Associated with: J Thompson
Date circa 1786
date QS:P571,+1786-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium pasteboard
Dimensions
Height: 92 millimetres
Width: 62 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
D,2.359
Notes

The plate appears to have been re-engraved from a previous trade-card for Thompson, D,2.356, with identical lettering and a similar composition featuring a monkey, owl and parrot; it would appear that this is the later card, as the figures are etched with greater skill, and the addition of big cats to the taxidermist's repertoire shows an increase in ambition and resources. The suggestion that the taxidermist and the engraver worked at the same address is interesting; Thompson must have emploted Warburton, handily at the same address, to improve the figures, perhaps at the same time the address needed to be changed.

See also a third, later trade-card for Thompson, a more elaborate design that refers to his work for the British Museum and the Leverian Museum; D,2.361.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_D-2-359
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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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