Charles Joseph Hullmandel (1789-1850) was born in London and had a lithographic establishment in Great Marlborough Street from c. 1819 to his death in 1850. His treatise The Art of Drawing on Stone (1824) is an essential manual of lithography. This bill heading (no surviving trade card is known) dates from c. 1829 to 1848. In it, reference is made to the renting of lithographic stones and also to ‘engravings transferred from copper and printed from stone,’ the method used in producing this bill heading. This was achieved by the use of transfer paper.

George Scharf was one of Hullmandel’s draughtsmen. He is known for his London scenes and natural history illustrations.

At the time of Hullmandel’s death, preparations were well under way for the firm to exhibit at the Great Exhibition, where they won a medal. In Hullmandel’s obituaries, reference was made not only to his lithographic printing but also to patents relating to marble earthenware (shown by Messrs. Copeland) and to the printing of calicoes from copper rollers with granite ground. Hullmandel also invented a new razor strop.