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Henry Jouret Picture Frame Maker,

at the Architrave Frame... Makes all sorts of Black and Gold Frames for Paintings, Prints, and Glasses, and all sorts of Ornaments Carved and Guilded. – N.B. Prints varnished in the Best manner at Reasonable Rates.

JOURET, Henry; and Matthias LOCK
[London,
Grafton Street St. Ann's Soho,
c1755].
Engraved trade card
(sheet) 160 by 130mm. (6.25 by 5 inches); (plate) 165 by 135 (6.5 by 5.25 inches).
17762

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An elaborate asymmetrical rococo cartouche adorned with the tools of Henry Jouret's framing trade surrounds details of the services he offered. A near identical trade card (Heal 100.44) indicates that Jouret subsequently operated at the "Gold Frame, the middle of Maiden Lane, Covent Garden".

Although the engraver is anonymous, it is very similar to a trade card for Thomas Harper, "copper plate printer", engraved by J. Evans after a design by Matthias Lock (fl 174...

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BM Heal 96.7

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