Ellis gamble
trade card of ellis gamble, goldsmith in blue cross street, leicester fields, london, showing a garlanded shield with crossed lion's paws supported on scrolls with a woman's head, flanked by two male torsos supporting a lintel with a head of minerva in a scalloped niche at the centre and baskets of fruit to either side. Fleuron from book:
graphic illustrations of hogarth, from pictures, drawings, and scarce prints, in the possession of samuel ireland, author of this work; of a picturesque tour through holland, brabant, &c. And of the picturesque beauties of the rivers, thames, medway, avon, wye, &c. Vol. I. Date: 1799.
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