Trade card for Goodwill & Lawson, engravers, printers and stationers

Art Historical Context

Step into the vibrant world of19th-century British commerce with this charming trade card for Goodwill & Lawson, engravers printers, and stationers. Produced anonymously in Britain during the era, this petite engraving measures just 3 11/16 × 5 inches, perfectly sized for pocket distribution. As a piece of ephemera from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings Prints department—generously gifted by Bella C. Landauer 1926—it exemplifies everyday artistry that fueled advertising's golden age. Engaving, the medium here, was a hallmark of precision craftsmanship, involving incising designs into ...