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Tatlow & Johnson. Drapers, Mercers and Haberdashers. Derby (1769)
Like the trade card for Pearkes of Worcester (no. 27) this 18th-century
card is unusual in depicting trades. In neither case is a shop sign referred to,
there being no necessity to designate location so precisely in the provinces.
These illustrations therefore take the place of the sign. Again a London
engraver has been employed: William Darling, whose own trade card can be seen at
no. 87 (part 4). Another example of his engraving is at no. 268 and is
astonishingly different in style, showing the enormous stylistic changes between
1769 and the end of the 18th century.
JJ Trade Cards 12 (118)
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