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    • Author/Creator:Thomas & Edward Gilks, creator.
    • Title:Billhead recording purchase by Mr. McKenna from Thomas & Edward Gilks, engravers on wood.
    • Production:London, 1849.
    • Physical Description:1 sheet : illustrations ; 10 x 13 cm
    • Yale Holdings

      • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
      • Call Number: HD8039.E6 T46 1849 Box PM Fund. Quadrille 5/2019
      • Status:No information available 
      • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
       
    • Notes:Edward Gilks, a lithographer, was in partnership with his brother, Thomas Gilks, a wood-engraver, from about 1844-1850.
      Completed in pen and ink.
      "Thos. & Edwd. Gilks, engravers on wood, ornamental draughtsmen & lithographers.4 Fenchurch Buildings, Fenchurch Street."
      Engraved vignette of the Royal Exchange at top of billhead.
    • Summary:Billhead from Thomas & Edward Gilks recording purchase made by Mr. McKenna on July 13, 1849 of a large cut of [illegible]. Signed DWMcK. No purchase price or receipt of payment noted.
    • Format:Archives or Manuscripts
    • Subjects:McKenna, Mr.
      Gilks, Thomas.
      Gilks, Edward, 1822?-
      Thomas & Edward Gilks.
      Engravers--Great Britain.
      Lithographers--Great Britain.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Chron--1849.
    • Genre/Form:Ephemera.
      Billheads.
      Blank forms.
      Invoices.
      Engravings--1849.