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[Fabric samples]The Repository Of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics.
No. LIV. June, 1813. R. Ackermann, 101, Strand, London.
Three real cloth fragments glued over woodcut design, letterpress below. Complete. Sheet 250 x 155mm, 9¾ x 6".
For Rudolph Ackermann's 'Repository of Arts' periodical, published from 1809-1829. It discussed and illustrated day to day life, and influenced English taste in fashion, architecture and literature. It regularly featured (numbered) samples from cloth merchants and manufacturers as a means of promoting their products. Figures represented include Britannia and Neptune; also a lion and the royal coat of arms.
[Ref: 19085] £65.00
Three real cloth fragments glued over woodcut design, letterpress below. Complete. Sheet 250 x 155mm, 9¾ x 6".
For Rudolph Ackermann's 'Repository of Arts' periodical, published from 1809-1829. It discussed and illustrated day to day life, and influenced English taste in fashion, architecture and literature. It regularly featured (numbered) samples from cloth merchants and manufacturers as a means of promoting their products. Figures represented include Britannia and Neptune; also a lion and the royal coat of arms.
[Ref: 19085] £65.00