Shop Card for Mrs. Holt's Italian Warehouse
Title
Shop Card for Mrs. Holt's Italian Warehouse
Subject
trade/industry; allegory/personification; italian; advertising
Description
Copy of a trade card by Hogarth for Mrs Holt's Italian Warehouse used for advertisement; Mercury talking to Florence, who sits with items of trade: a jar of oil, fan, hat, violin etc., men loading other items onto a ship at right, Rome in background; Medici crest at top of frame, cities of Naples, Venice, Genoa and Leghorn represented in corners; illustration to volume I of Ireland's 'Graphic Illustrations of Hogarth' (1794).
Etching
Etching
Creator
William Hogarth, an English artist and cartoonist accomplished in portraiture, painting, etching, printing, and artistic satire
Source
http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/396784?=&imgNo=0&tabName=object-information
Publisher
Public Domain, metmuseum.org
Date
before 1772
Contributor
metmuseum.org
Kim McCarthy
Kim McCarthy
Rights
Public Domain
Relation
[no text]
Format
sheet: 9 x 5 9/16 in. (22.8 x 14.2 cm)
Language
English
Type
Etching and engraving, print
Identifier
59.600.271
Coverage
Eighteenth Century
Files
Citation
William Hogarth, an English artist and cartoonist accomplished in portraiture, painting, etching, printing, and artistic satire, “Shop Card for Mrs. Holt's Italian Warehouse,” Food origins, accessed April 20, 2024, https://tenochtitlan.omeka.net/items/show/66.