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[Glassware] Messrs. Pellatt & Green, St. Paul's Church Yard.
For No.5 of Ackermann's Repository of Arts &c. Pub. May 1809, at 101 Strand, London.
Hand coloured aquatint. Sheet 150 x 245mm (6 x 9¾"). Trimmed.
Glassware on display inside the showroom of Apsley Pellatt in the City of London. He was the inventor of the glass lenses, known as ‘deck lights,' used for giving light to the lower parts of ships, for which he obtained a patent in 1807. From Rudolph Ackermann's periodical, the ''Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics'', published from 1809-29. It discussed English day to day life; the illustrations influenced English taste in fashion, architecture and literature.
[Ref: 62643] £140.00
Hand coloured aquatint. Sheet 150 x 245mm (6 x 9¾"). Trimmed.
Glassware on display inside the showroom of Apsley Pellatt in the City of London. He was the inventor of the glass lenses, known as ‘deck lights,' used for giving light to the lower parts of ships, for which he obtained a patent in 1807. From Rudolph Ackermann's periodical, the ''Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions, and Politics'', published from 1809-29. It discussed English day to day life; the illustrations influenced English taste in fashion, architecture and literature.
[Ref: 62643] £140.00