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:

GeneralHeight12,1 cm
Width8,6 cm
Thickness2,4 cm
Characteristics
Materiallood (metaal)
Techniquegegoten metaal
Colourgrijs
Other materialshout
Traces of use slijtage
Production
ContintentEuropa
Region InternationalWest-Europa
CountryNederland
Region NationalOverijssel
CityZwolle
MakerGebroeders Thorbecke
Acquisition
Year 2012
Provenance Amsterdam, veilinghuis Glerum, Art & Antiques Group, lot 98
Voorburg, particulier bezit, 2012
Comments
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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