D is for Drawing Master
Arch[ibal]d Robertson, Print-Seller and Drawing-Master, in Savill Row Passage, adjoining Squib's Auction Room
Sells great variety of Italian, French and Dutch Prints and Drawings; Best Swiss Crayons, variety of Drawing Paper, Port Crayons, all sorts of Italian and French Chalks, Colour Boxes, the best black Lead and Hair Pencils, India Ink, Port-folios with or without Leaves, Ladies black Tracing Paper, and very fine Transparent Do. for Etching, with Copper Plates prepared for Do. Etching Needles &c. &c. &C. Visiting Cards Engraved in the most elegant manner; Great choice of Paper Hangings in the newest Taste. N.B. Sandby's works in Aqua Tinta, to be had complete. Prints Framed & Glazed, and Drawings neatly fitted up.
London,
[after 1777]
Aquatint vignette.
77 by 100mm. (3 by 4 inches).
18427
notes:
A vignette for the trade card of Archibald Robertson, drawing master of "Savill Row Passage", later "Savile Place", demolished in 1936 to make way for a wider continuation of Savile Row to Conduit Street. The oval vignette is a fine aquatint view of the top end of Savile Street with Robertson's shop to the right, showing the arched passageway which led to Mill Street and then on to Conduit Street, by Paul Sandby.
Robertson (fl 1777-1796) held premises at the entr...
Robertson (fl 1777-1796) held premises at the entr...
bibliography:
BM Banks 56.23; see BM Heal 100.61
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