A catalogue of a most valuable collection of prints, books of prints, drawings, and antiquities, late the property of John Strange, Esq. ... deceased, formerly British resident at Venice ... : which (by order of the executors ...) will be sold by auction by Mr. Christie, on the premises, on Wednesday, March 19, 1800, and four following days, (Sunday excepted) ..
An auction catalogue issued by Mr. Christie in London in 1800 for the sale of prints, drawings and antiquities formerly owned by John Strange, British resident at Venice. The two pictures are ornamental printers' devices: a row of stylised foliage borders the top, and a central vignette of a shield, a fringed drape and leafy scrolls sits between two curled staffs. A designer could draw on these dense, symmetrical border and cartouche ornaments for period headers and dividers.
