Rococo Trade Card John Savell Tobacco Pipe Maker London Circa.1770 Theatrical Prints Portrait miniature painting

Portrait miniature painting

After the original composition by Sir Joshua Reynolds P

writing of William Lock

" Possibly a portrait of Abraham Cowley 1618-1667

Inscribed in ink to backing sheet "bought by SE Knightly from a stall in the Market Place Florence 1857

Rococo Trade Card John Savell Tobacco Pipe Maker London Circa.1770 Theatrical Prints Portrait miniature paintingRare 18th. Century Copper Engraved Trade Card for John Savell Tobacco Pipe Maker in Featherstone Street near Moorfields London. Makes & Sells all Sorts of Pipes for Sea or Land, at Reasonable Rates. Text set within a Rococo cartouche with pipes and Masonic symbols. Printed on laid paper two old horizontal folds, mounted onto backing light foxing, with collection label of Ambrose Heal. Noted authority on London shops and trades. Ref. BM collection Heal