Coade's Lithodipyra or Artificial Stone Manufactory trade card (advertisement)

Original object type: Artefact
Title: Coade's Lithodipyra or Artificial Stone Manufactory trade card (advertisement)
Description:
Highly pictorial 18th century engraved trade card (advertisement) of Coade's Lithodipyra or Artificial Stone Manufactory. Lithodipyra means 'stone twice fired'. Large image filling card depicting classical figures, with Time being pushed by female personification of fire holding lit torch wearing belt inscribed with 'ignea vis', Latin for 'fiery force'. Kiln in background with inscription 'nec edax abolere vetustas', Latin for 'nor the gnawing tooth of time', contains statue of the Three Graces, daughters of Zeus. Trader details inscribed on stone. Engraving also appears as title print in Coade's catalogue.
Transcription: COADE'S, LITHODIPYRA or ARTIFICIAL STONE MANUFACTORY. For all kind of Statues, Capitals, Vases, Tombs, Coats of Arms, & Architectural ornaments &c. &c. particularly exprefsed [expressed] in Catalogues, & Books of Prints of 800 Articles & upwards, Sold at the Manufactory near Kings Arms Stairs, Narrow Wall Lambeth, opposite Whitehall Stairs, & at Mr Strahan's Bookseller, No 67 Strand, London. C. R. Ryley delt. R. Wray, Sculp.
Date range: c.1784
Date: 1784