Museum number:
| APM 21.100 |
Subcollection:
| vignetten en tabaksverpakkingen |
Title:
| printing block |
Keyword:
| two merchants by a tobacco barrel |
Description:
Printing block of lead nailed on a wooden block with standing rectangular shape with two standing tobacco merchants with triangular stitch inside a frame of rocailles, near a tobacco barrel from which tobacco leaves protrude, the left figure with a long clay pipe in the hand, along the upper edge in rectangular recess "GOEDE SCHWIZENTS" and at the bottom in recess "DEESE EN MEER ANDERE ZOORTEN VAN ROOCKTABACK ZIJN TE KOOP IN DE FABRIEQ VAN GEBROEDERS THORBECKE TE ZWOLLE”(these and more other types of smoking tobacco are for sale in the factory of the brothers Thorbecke in Zwolle)", along the left side in writing "GEBROEDERS THORBECKE TE ZWOLLE" (brothers Thorbecke in Zwolle). |
Date:
| Period | 1780 - 1800 |
Dimensions:
| General | Height | 12,1 cm |
| Width | 8,6 cm | |
| Thickness | 2,4 cm |
| Material | lood (metaal) |
| Technique | gegoten metaal |
| Colour | grijs |
| Other materials | hout |
| Traces of use | slijtage |
| Contintent | Europa |
| Region International | West-Europa |
| Country | Nederland |
| Region National | Overijssel |
| City | Zwolle |
| Maker | Gebroeders Thorbecke |
| Year | 2012 |
| Provenance | Amsterdam, veilinghuis Glerum, Art & Antiques Group, lot 98 |
| Voorburg, particulier bezit, 2012 |
| Luft toont (t.o. p 112) een nagenoeg identiek vignet dat voorbeeld voor deze is geweest en op naam van Franz Mayer uit Amsterdam staat. |
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