Trade Card: Chapman & Driver, Trunk, & Plate-Case, Makers
Dateca. 1770
OriginEngland, London
MediumEtching and line engraving on laid paper; iron gall ink
DimensionsOverall: 6 1/2 × 8 1/16in. (16.5 × 20.5cm)
Credit LineMuseum Purchase, The Friends of Colonial Williamsburg Collections Fund
Object number2024-8
DescriptionTitle reads: "Chapman & Driver,/ Trunk, & Plate-Case, Makers,/ To their Royal Highnesses/ The Dukes of Gloucester & Cumberland,/ At the Kings Arms/ in Cockspur Street, near Pall Mall,/ LONDON/ Make & Sell, all sorts of Travelling Iron Bound Trunks,/ for Travelling Foreign Roads, Camp Trunks, Cover'd Hampers,/ Leather Portmanteaus Leather Duck & CAnvas Valleces for Bed-/ ing/ Canteens for Liquors, all Sorts of Cases for Plate, China, & / Glass Leather Fire Buckets, Tacks, & Bottles, Gentlemans, & / Ladys, Hat Boxes &c. Wholesale, & Retail, at Reasonable Rates."Label TextThis trade card for trunk and case-plate makers Chapman and Driver displays various wares sold by the shop including trunks and fire buckets. The verso bears a receipt for a 1772 order for a trunk.
InscribedInscription: "Nov.r 21, 1772"
ProvenanceBefore 2023, Thomas Heneage (London); 2024-present purchased by The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Williamsburg, VA).
1769-1772
1756-1786
May 7, 1851
March 31, 1751
1800-1827 (compiled); some 1726
1780-1810
ca. 1810
1760-1770
