Trade Card for T. Palser, Printseller
19th century
Medium
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 4 11/16 × 5 7/16 in. (11.9 × 13.8 cm) Plate: 2 15/16 × 4 3/4 in. (7.5 × 12 cm)
Classification
Prints|Ephemera
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Bella C. Landauer, 1926
Accession Number
26.28.345
Art Historical Context
Step into the vibrant world of 19th British commerce with this charming *Trade Card for T. Palser,seller*, an anonymous engraving from the Metropolitan Museum of's Drawings and Prints collection. Measuring a modest 4 11/16 × 5 7/16 inches on its sheet, this ephemera served as a promotional tool for T. Palser, a London-based printseller whose shop catered to collectors and enthusiasts of fine prints during the era's printmaking boom. Engraving, the medium here, highlights the precision of intaglio techniques: artists incised intricate lines into a metal plate, inking it and pressing paper into...